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66th Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad

Belarus geometry

Problem

A point is marked inside an acute non-isosceles triangle such that and .

Points and are defined in the same way. Let be the gravity center of the triangle .

Prove that the points are concyclic.

problem
Solution
There is nothing to prove if some two of four points , , , coincide. So, we can assume that all these points are pairwise distinct.

Let and denote the circumcircles of the triangles and , respectively. Let be the intersection point of the lines and . Since , it follows that touches at . By the Power of a Point Theorem, we have , Similarly, , hence , so , i.e., is the midpoint of the side . Thus, lies on the median of the triangle from the vertex . By the same arguments, and lie on the medians of the triangle from the vertices and , respectively.



Let be the orthocenter of the triangle . It is well known that the points which are symmetric to with respect to the sides of the triangle lie on the circumcircle of . If is symmetric to with respect to the side , then belongs to and we have hence the quadrilateral is cyclic and belongs to the circle passing through the points , , .

Further, Therefore, is the projection of on the median . Similarly, and are the projections of on the median of the triangle from the vertices and , respectively.

Since is the intersection point of the medians of , we have . Thus lie on the circle with the diameter , so all points lie on the same circle.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing