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Mongolian National Mathematical Olympiad

Mongolia geometry

Problem

Let be the incenter of triangle . Let be a point on side , and be a point on ray such that lies between and and . Let be the foot of perpendicular from to line . Prove that . (Proposed by B. Battsengel, G. Batzaya)

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Solution
Let be the incircle of the triangle , , , be the touching points of with sides , and respectively. Let be the circle with diameter , and be the intersection point of and , different from . Denote by be the intersection point of and . We claim that and are collinear. For this, it suffices to show that and are harmonic because is uniquely determined by the given ratio, where is the intersection point of and . Since we get and so , i.e, is tangent to the circle . Thus Clearly, the points are harmonic and the cross-ratio is defined as a ratio of sines. Therefore we can conclude that and are harmonic since , and . Hence , implying the claim. Let be the intersection point of and . Since the points and lie on a circle. Thus and .

Techniques

Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleTangentsPolar triangles, harmonic conjugatesTrigonometryAngle chasing