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23rd Junior Turkish Mathematical Olympiad

Turkey geometry

Problem

Let be the circumcenter of an acute triangle . A line perpendicular to intersects the line segments and at and , respectively. Let be a point on which is not on the line . The line intersects the circumcircle of triangle again at . Let be the point symmetric to with respect to the line . Show that the points , , , are concyclic.

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Solution


Let and intersect at , and be the foot of the perpendicular line from to . Since and we get and hence the points , , , are concyclic. Using power equations we obtain

Since is the midpoint of and is the midpoint of , we get

On the other hand, implies that the points , , , are also concyclic. Using power equations again, we get Using (1), (2) and (3), we conclude that which shows that the points , , , are concyclic.

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleCyclic quadrilateralsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing