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Bulgarian National Olympiad

Bulgaria geometry

Problem

A quadrilateral with is circumscribed around a circle of center . A line through meets and at points and , respectively. Prove that if then .
Solution
Denote by and the tangent points of the incircle of with and , respectively. It follows from that and . Also, the equalities , and show that , implying . If and (or and ) then the equality implies , a contradiction. Therefore and . It follows from that giving and . Therefore , which implies that . Analogously, , i.e. . Hence .

Techniques

Inscribed/circumscribed quadrilateralsTangentsAngle chasing