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Geometry Difficulty 6.2 National Olympiad Prove it Iran

The triangle ABCABC is given. Point TT is the intersection of the AA-symmedian and the circumcircle of ABCABC. Point DAD \neq A lies on the line ACAC in such a way that BD=BABD = BA. The line tangent to the circumcircle of ADTADT at point DD intersects the circumcircle of DCTDCT, for the second time at point KK. Prove that BKC=90\angle BKC = 90^\circ.

Solution

According to the assumptions of the problem, we have ADT=TKC\angle ADT = \angle TKC and TCK=TDK=TAD\angle TCK = \angle TDK = \angle TAD. From these two equations, it follows that TDATKC\triangle TDA \sim \triangle TKC. Therefore, we can write:
KCAD=TCAT(1) \frac{KC}{AD} = \frac{TC}{AT} \qquad (1)
On the other hand, if we denote the midpoint of BCBC as MM, we can easily deduce that ABMATC\triangle ABM \sim \triangle ATC. Therefore, according to 1, we have:
KCAD=TCAT=ABBM=ABCM(2) \frac{KC}{AD} = \frac{TC}{AT} = \frac{AB}{BM} = \frac{AB}{CM} \qquad (2)
We have shown that TCK=TAD=TAC\angle TCK = \angle TAD = \angle TAC, which is equivalent to the fact that KCKC is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle ABCABC. Thus, BAD=MCK\angle BAD = \angle MCK. Using this equality and 2, we obtain MCKBAD\triangle MCK \sim \triangle BAD, which means MK=MCMK = MC. Thus, in triangle BCKBCK, the KK-median is half of BCBC, and we must have BKC=90\angle BKC = 90^\circ.

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