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BMO Round 1, 2017

Geometry Difficulty 7.0 National Olympiad, round 2 Prove it United Kingdom

Let ABCABC be a triangle with ∠A<∠B<90∘\angle A < \angle B < 90^\circ and let Γ\Gamma be the circle through AA, BB and CC. The tangents to Γ\Gamma at AA and CC meet at PP. The line segments ABAB and PCPC produced meet at QQ. It is given that [ACP]=[ABC]=[BQC].[ACP] = [ABC] = [BQC]. Prove that ∠BCA=90∘\angle BCA = 90^\circ. Here [XYZ][XYZ] denotes the area of triangle XYZXYZ.

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