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SAUDI ARABIAN MATHEMATICAL COMPETITIONS

Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Let be an acute, non-isosceles triangle and be its circumcircle (with center ). Denote by the centroid of the triangle , by the foot of the altitude from onto the side and by the midpoint of . The line intersects at . 1. Prove that . 2. The ray intersects at . Denote by the circumcenter of the circle . Prove that and intersect on the circle .

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Solution
1) Let be the midpoint of then and . Take the point on such that is the midpoint of , then is the median of triangle and is its centroid. Then is the median of triangle or passes through the midpoint of . This implies that and we have .



2) The line passes through and parallel to intersects at different from . Then by the symmetry through the perpendicular bisector of , it is easy to check that is a rectangle. Since , we have are collinear. Then which implies that Thus if we denote then is the diameter of , then . Therefore, and intersect at a point that belongs to .

Techniques

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