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The 14th Thailand Mathematical Olympiad

Thailand geometry

Problem

Let be a cyclic quadrilateral. Let be the circumcenter of the quadrilateral . The diagonals and intersect at . Let and be the circumcenters of triangles and respectively. The lines and intersect at . Show that is the midpoint of and .

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Solution
First we show that is a parallelogram. Since and lie on the perpendicular bisector of chord , we have is perpendicular to . Let be the intersection of and , and be the midpoint of . Since , the points are concyclic. From , we deduce and thus .

A similar argument shows that . Thus, is a parallelogram. Since and are perpendicular bisectors of segments and respectively, we have (since both are perpendicular to ). Similarly we have , and hence is a parallelogram. Since the diagonals of a parallelogram bisect each other, from the parallelogram we deduce that is the midpoint of . On the other hand, the parallelogram yields that is the midpoint of as required.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleAngle chasing