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Geometry Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it Brazil

ABCDABCD is a quadrilateral with a circumcircle center OO and an inscribed circle center II. The diagonals intersect at SS. Show that if two of OO, II, SS coincide, then it must be a square.

Solution

If S=OS = O then AC=BD=2RAC = BD = 2R, where RR is the circumradius of ABCDABCD and SS is the midpoint of both ACAC and BDBD. This means that ABCDABCD is an inscribed parallelogram. The sum of its opposite angles, which are congruent, is 180180^\circ, so all angles of ABCDABCD are right, that is, ABCDABCD is a rectangle. But there is an inscribed circle of radius rr in ABCDABCD, so all sides are equal to 2r2r and so ABCDABCD is a square.

If S=IS = I then the diagonals ACAC and BDBD are bisectors of the angles of ABCDABCD, which means that every side subtends the same arc of the circumcircle as its neighbouring sides. This means that the four vertices AA, BB, CC, DD divide the circle in four equal parts, so ABCDABCD is a square.

If I=OI = O then the quadrilateral can be partitioned in eight congruent right triangles with hypotenuse equal to RR and one of the legs equal to rr; the angle between RR and rr in those right triangles has always vertex on OO, so all central angles AOB\angle AOB, BOC\angle BOC, COD\angle COD and DOA\angle DOA are equal and again AA, BB, CC and DD divide the circumcircle in four equal arcs, leading again to ABCDABCD being a square.

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