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North Macedonia

North Macedonia geometry

Problem

Let be the center of the incircle of triangle . The points and are the intersection points of the circumcircles of triangles and , respectively with the bisectors of the angles at and , is the middle point of , is symmetrical to with respect to and is symmetrical to with respect to the line . Prove that the quadrilateral is inscribed.

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Solution
The angles and are equal as inscribed angles upon the same arc. The angle is equal to the sum of the angles and , as an external angle to the triangle , therefore:

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Analogously , so the point lies on the line , and point is the middle point of . The line is parallel to as a middle line of triangle .

The quadrilateral is a parallelogram, because its diagonals bisect each other at point . That implies that, the angles and are equal.

On the other hand, the triangle is isosceles with base ( is its height and median), so is a bisector of , i.e. the angles and are equal. It follows that , therefore the quadrilateral is an isosceles trapezoid, hence inscribed. (If point lies on the other side of point , we consider the angles and ).

Techniques

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