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26th Hellenic Mathematical Olympiad

Greece geometry

Problem

A triangle is given and let its circumcenter and the middles of its sides and , respectively. We consider the points such that , and , with . Prove that the lines are concurrent.

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Solution
Let be the orthocenter of the triangle . Then and from , we find: . If meets at (from the similarity of the triangles and ), we have: . It means that passes through which divides in ratio .

Similarly, we have and . Let now be the point of intersection of the lines and . Then we have , which means that passes through which divides in ratio .

Similarly, if is the point of intersection of the lines and , then we have that passes through which divides in ratio .



Since the points , , coincide, the lines are concurrent.

Techniques

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