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Balkan Mathematical Olympiad

North Macedonia geometry

Problem

A quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle , where and is not parallel to . Point is the intersection of the diagonals and and the perpendicular from to intersects the segment at the point . If bisects the angle , prove that is a diameter of the circle .
Solution
Solution: Let the line through parallel to meet the segments at points respectively. Triangle is isosceles, so . Now from we obtain . Let the lines and meet at point and let the line meet at . Then , so , i.e. lies on the line . The quadrilateral is not a trapezoid, so . Consider the point on the ray such that . Since , quadrilateral is cyclic and therefore , which implies that .

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasingConstructions and loci