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Kanada 2014

Canada 2014 geometry

Problem

The quadrilateral is inscribed in a circle. The point lies in the interior of , and . The lines and meet at , and the lines and meet at . Prove that the lines and form the same angle as the diagonals of .
Solution
Let be the circumcircle of quadrilateral . Let and let and denote the circumcircles of triangles , , and , respectively. Let be the intersection of with line and let be the intersection of with line . Also let denote the intersection of diagonals and .

By power of a point for circles and , it follows that which implies that the quadrilateral is cyclic and lies on . Therefore where all angles are directed. This implies that lies on the diagonal and also that . By a symmetric argument applied to , and , it follows that lies on and that lies on diagonal with . Therefore and and are concyclic. This implies that the angle formed by lines and is equal to one of the angles formed by lines and . The fact that lies on and and lies on and now implies the desired result.

Techniques

Cyclic quadrilateralsRadical axis theoremAngle chasing