In an acute triangle , let be the midpoint of and be a point on . The interior angle bisectors of and intersect at . Let . Prove that .
, 2019
Solution
By angle chasing, we have
Let be a point on such that . Since and , we conclude that is a parallelogram. Therefore which means that is a cyclic quadrilateral. Since , the areas of the triangles and are equal. We also have and hence we get
which shows that
Let . (Notice that since the triangle is acute, must be on the line segment .) By bisector theorem, we get
and hence should also be bisector of the angle , i.e., are collinear. This is possible only if .
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