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Print69th Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad
Belarus geometry
Problem
The bisectors of angles and of a convex quadrilateral meet at the point , and the bisectors of angles and meet at the point ( and lie in the interior of ). The point is the midpoint of the segment . The points and are the foots of the perpendiculars from to the sides and respectively. Prove that .
Solution
Since lies on the bisector of (), the point is equidistant from the sides and (respectively, and ). A similar statement holds for the point . Denote the distances from the point to the lines and by and , respectively, and the distances from the point to the lines and be and , respectively. Since the length of the midline in a trapezium is equal to the half-sum of the base lengths,
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