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Selected Problems from Open Contests

Estonia geometry

Problem

Consider a parallelogram .

a) Prove that if the incenter of the triangle is located on the diagonal , then the parallelogram is a rhombus.

b) Is the parallelogram a rhombus whenever the circumcenter of the triangle is located on the diagonal ?

problem
Solution
a) As the incenter of the triangle is located on diagonal (Fig. 1), we can conclude that is the bisector of . Therefore . However, since is a parallelogram, . Hence the triangle is isosceles, i.e. . Thus, is a rhombus.

Fig. 1

b) Let be a rectangle with different side lengths. The circumcenter of triangle is located on the intersection of the diagonals of the rectangle. We see that all the required conditions are satisfied, however is not a rhombus.
Final answer
a) Yes, ABCD is a rhombus. b) No; for example, a non-square rectangle.

Techniques

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