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Team Selection Test for IMO 2023

Turkey 2023 geometry

Problem

In a scalene triangle let be the circumcenter, be the incenter and be the orthocenter. The second intersection point of the circle which passes through and is tangent to at and the circle which passes through and is tangent to at is . Show that lies on the circumcircle of the triangle .
Solution
First observe that and , hence the similarity ; thus . Now let be the midpoint of the segment (so is the center of the 9-point circle), and let be the reflection of over . Thus is a parallelogram; therefore and , which implies the similarity . Consequently Note: The equality is Feuerbach's theorem.

Techniques

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