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55rd Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad - Third Round

Ukraine geometry

Problem

Let be a bisector in an isosceles triangle (), and let be another bisector in the triangle . Find out the measures of all angles in if the bisectors of and intersect on the straight line .

problem
Solution
Let be the intersection point for the bisectors of the angles and (Fig. 3). Then this point lies on the segment and is equidistant from rays and , as well as from and . Hence, it's equidistant from rays and . Then is the bisector of (in other words, is an excenter of the triangle ). With the initial conditions, this implies . Since , we have that . Finally, we can write , .



Fig. 3
Final answer
∠BAC = 80°, ∠BCA = 80°, ∠ABC = 20°

Techniques

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