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Geometry Difficulty 6.7 National olympiad Prove it North Macedonia

Let OO be the center of the incircle of triangle ABCABC. The points KK and LL are the intersection points of the circumcircles of triangles BOCBOC and AOCAOC, respectively with the bisectors of the angles at AA and BB, PP is the middle point of KL\overline{KL}, MM is symmetrical to OO with respect to PP and NN is symmetrical to OO with respect to the line KLKL. Prove that the quadrilateral KLMNKLMN is inscribed.

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Solution

The angles LCALCA and LOALOA are equal as inscribed angles upon the same arc. The angle LOALOA is equal to the sum of the angles OABOAB and OBAOBA, as an external angle to the triangle ABOABO, therefore:
LCO=LCA+OCA=LOA+OCA=OAB+OBA+OCA==12(CAB+ABC+ACB)=90 \begin{aligned} \angle LCO &= \angle LCA + \angle OCA = \angle LOA + \angle OCA = \angle OAB + \angle OBA + \angle OCA = \\ &= \frac{1}{2}(\angle CAB + \angle ABC + \angle ACB) = 90^\circ \end{aligned}

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Analogously KCO=90\angle KCO = 90^\circ, so the point CC lies on the line KLKL, and point CC is the middle point of ON\overline{ON}. The line PCPC is parallel to MNMN as a middle line of triangle MONMON.

The quadrilateral LOKMLOKM is a parallelogram, because its diagonals bisect each other at point PP. That implies that, the angles MLKMLK and OKLOKL are equal.

On the other hand, the triangle OKNOKN is isosceles with base ONON (KCKC is its height and median), so KCKC is a bisector of OKNOKN, i.e. the angles OKCOKC and NKCNKC are equal. It follows that MLK=NKL\angle MLK = \angle NKL, therefore the quadrilateral KLMNKLMN is an isosceles trapezoid, hence inscribed. (If point PP lies on the other side of point CC, we consider the angles MKLMKL and NLKNLK).

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