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Geometry Difficulty 6.6 National Olympiad Prove it Saudi Arabia

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle with AB<ACAB < AC and inscribed in the circle (O)(O). Denote II as the incenter of ABCABC and D,ED, E as the intersections of AIAI with BC,(O)BC, (O) respectively. Take a point KK on BCBC such that AIK=90\angle AIK = 90^\circ and KA,KEKA, KE meet (O)(O) again at M,NM, N respectively. The rays ND,NIND, NI meet the circle (O)(O) at Q,PQ, P.
1. Prove that the quadrilateral MPQEMPQE is a kite.

2. Take JJ on IOIO such that AKAJAK \perp AJ. The line through II and perpendicular to OIOI cuts BCBC at RR, cuts EKEK at SS. Prove that ORJSOR \parallel JS.

Solution

First, we know that EI=EB=ECEI = EB = EC then EE is the circumcenter of triangle BICBIC. Thus KIKI is the tangent line of circle (BIC)(BIC). Hence,
KI2=KBKC=KEKN. KI^2 = KB \cdot KC = KE \cdot KN.
By combining with KIEKIE is right triangle, we get INKEIN \perp KE.
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So PEPE is the diameter of circle (O)(O). We have BDEABE\triangle BDE \sim \triangle ABE so
BEAE=DEBEEAED=EB2=EI2=ENEK \frac{BE}{AE} = \frac{DE}{BE} \Rightarrow EA \cdot ED = EB^2 = EI^2 = EN \cdot EK
Implies that ADNKADNK is cyclic. Thus MAE=DNE\angle MAE = \angle DNE which leads to EM,EQEM, EQ are equal. Therefore, MPQEMPQE is a kite.

Since KI2=KMKAKI^2 = KM \cdot KA, we get IMAKIM \perp AK. Construct the diameter AAAA' of (O)(O) then M,I,AM, I, A' are collinear. Thus AJIMAJ \parallel IM implies that AIAJAIA'J is a parallelogram and then OO is the midpoint of IJIJ.

Since IOIO is the median of triangle IPEIPE so Ix,IO,IP,IEIx, IO, IP, IE form a harmonic quartet with IxPEIx \parallel PE. Denote KyKy as the ray that perpendicular to IOIO then notice that KEIP,KIIE,KDIx,K,KyIOKE \perp IP, KI \perp IE, KD \perp Ix, K, Ky \perp IO so KD,Ky,KI,KEKD, Ky, KI, KE form another harmonic quartet. Since KyRSKy \parallel RS then RR is the midpoint of OSOS. Therefore OROR is the midline of triangle IJSIJS which implies that ORJSOR \parallel JS.
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