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66th Czech and Slovak Mathematical Olympiad

Czech Republic geometry

Problem

Let be an acute triangle with altitude . The bisectors of angles , , intersect side at , , respectively. The circumcircle of triangle intersects sides , at , , respectively. Prove that lines , , and pass through a common point. (Patrik Bak)

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Solution
Let be the intersection of segments and and the intersection of and (Fig. 2). Inscribed angles give

Fig. 2

that is , hence Line FK is therefore an altitude of the triangle AEF. Similarly we prove that EL is its altitude too, thus the intersection of FK and EL is the orthocenter of triangle AEF and it lies on its third altitude AD too.

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Alternative solution.

Let M be the second intersection of ray and the circumcircle of triangle (Fig. 2). Since is the bisector of angle , the angles and inscribed in are equal and therefore the chords and are also equal. Furthermore, the corresponding inscribed angles and are equal too. The intersection of and is thus the reflection of about . The same argument applies to the intersection of and , therefore the original intersections are identical.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleConcurrency and CollinearityAngle chasing