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SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Let be the incenter of triangle and the excenter of the side . Let be the midpoint of and the midpoint of arc of circle . If is the symmetric of the point by the point , prove that the quadrilateral is cyclic.

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Solution
Suppose that cuts at and cuts again at . We have known that lie on circle .

Suppose that meets at , then is the external angle bisector of , so . We have means that is cyclic.



In the other hand, we have known that . Combining with is orthocenter of , we get implies that is cyclic.

From (1) and (2), then the points lie on a circle.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleRadical axis theoremPolar triangles, harmonic conjugates