Let be the perimeter of an acute triangle which is not equilateral, a variable point inside , and and be projections of on and respectively.
Prove that
if and only if is collinear with the incenter and circumcenter of . (posed by Xiong Bin)
Solution
Denote the lengths of three sides of by , and respectively. No loss of generality, we can suppose . We choose a rectangular coordinate system (see the figure), then we have , , and .

Since , it follows that
Therefore,
and
Similarly, we can compute and in terms of and .
Since , we get
that is,
Since and , point is on a fixed straight line. Since the condition is satisfied for both incenter and circumcenter, we complete the proof.
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