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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 D≠AD \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 △TDA∼△TKC\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 △ABM∼△ATC\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 △MCK∼△BAD\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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