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Croatian Mathematical Olympiad

Croatia geometry

Problem

Let be a circle centred at . Let be a chord of that circle and its midpoint. Tangents on at points and intersect at . The line goes through , intersects the shorter arc at the point and the longer arc at the point , so that . Prove that the circumcentre of the triangle ADM is the reflection of O across the line AD.

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Solution
Since and are on , the power of the point with respect to equals .



Furthermore, since the right-angled triangles and are similar, we have . Therefore, , i.e. the quadrilateral is cyclic.

Let point be the intersection of and the line , while . Now we have therefore , i.e. , meaning that is the reflection of across the line , and holds. Let be the point on different from such that . Then We can conclude that triangles and are congruent (two pairs of congruent sides, one pair of congruent angles, and both are obtuse), so is the reflection of across the line . The fact that is the circumcentre of the triangle completes the proof.

Techniques

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