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SAUDI ARABIAN IMO Booklet, 2023

Geometry Difficulty 7.5 National Olympiad, round 2 Prove it Saudi Arabia

Let ABCABC be an isosceles acute triangle with ℓ\ell is the bisector of angle AA. A circle with center OO passes through B,CB, C and intersects the sides AB,ACAB, AC at D,ED, E respectively. Construct a parallelogram DTEKDTEK. Take X,YX, Y on AB,ACAB, AC respectively such that AXKYAXKY is also a parallelogram. Construct P,QP, Q on XYXY such that TP∥ACTP \parallel AC and TQ∥ABTQ \parallel AB. Prove that TOTO passes through the center of the circumcircle of triangle TPQTPQ.

Solution

Since BCEDBCED is cyclic, we have two similar triangles ABCABC and AEDAED. On the other hand
∠TBC=∠TDE=∠KED and ∠TCB=∠TED=∠KDE. \angle TBC = \angle TDE = \angle KED \text{ and } \angle TCB = \angle TED = \angle KDE.
Thus two points T,KT, K are corresponding in the above pair of similar triangles, it can be deduced that
∠TAB=∠KAE and ∠TAC=∠KAB \angle TAB = \angle KAE \text{ and } \angle TAC = \angle KAB
implies that AT,AKAT, AK are symmetric through ℓ\ell.

Lemma: if two rays Ox′,Oy′Ox', Oy' are isogonal in angle xOyxOy then every pair of isogonal lines Oa,ObOa, Ob in angle xOyxOy are also isogonal in angle x′Oy′x'Oy'. We will use this idea to solve the problem. Let JJ be the center of (TPQ)(TPQ) and HH be the projection of TT onto PQPQ. Then, according to the symmetry of the altitude and the line joining the center, we immediately have TJ,THTJ, TH isogonal in ∠PTQ\angle PTQ. On the other hand,
∠PTD=∠ACT=∠ABT=∠QTE \angle PTD = \angle ACT = \angle ABT = \angle QTE
so lines TP,TQTP, TQ are isogonal in angle ∠DTE\angle DTE and then TJ,THTJ, TH are also isogonal in ∠DTE\angle DTE. To prove three points J,T,OJ, T, O are collinear, we will show that lines TO,THTO, TH are isogonal in ∠DTE\angle DTE. (∗)(*)

Denote SS as the intersection of DE,BCDE, BC, then by applying Brocard's theorem to the completed quadrilateral BCED,ASBCED, AS we have TO⊥ASTO \perp AS. Draw Ax⊥THAx \perp TH then Ax∥XYAx \parallel XY. Notice that AXKYAXKY is a parallelogram, so AKAK passes through the midpoint of XYXY, leads to
(Ax,AK,AB,AC)=−1. (Ax, AK, AB, AC) = -1.
Furthermore, A(ST,BC)=−1A(ST, BC) = -1 so consider the symmetry over the line ℓ\ell, we have AB↔ACAB \leftrightarrow AC, AT↔AKAT \leftrightarrow AK and take AS↔Ax′AS \leftrightarrow Ax'. Then
(Ax′,AK,AB,AC)=−1, (Ax', AK, AB, AC) = -1,
so Ax≡Ax′Ax \equiv Ax' or AS,AxAS, Ax is symmetric about ℓ\ell. Through TT, draw lines Tb,TcTb, Tc perpendicular to AB,ACAB, AC, then two sets of four lines
(AS,Ax,AB,AC) and (TO,TH,Tb,TC) (AS, Ax, AB, AC) \text{ and } (TO, TH, Tb, TC)
are perpendicular respectively. This implies that TO,THTO, TH are isogonal in ∠bTC\angle bTC. Finally, since ∠ADT=∠AET\angle ADT = \angle AET, we have Tb,TcTb, Tc are also isogonal in ∠DTE\angle DTE and deduce to (∗)(*) is true. □\Box

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