In a non-isosceles triangle let and be the circumcenter and the incenter, respectively. Let be the midpoints of the sides , respectively. Let be the foot of the perpendicular from to , be the circumcenter of the triangle and be the midpoint of the line segment . If and are collinear, prove that
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Solution
Let be the orthocenter of the triangle . Let the points be the intersection of the lines and , and , and . We know that . By a simple angle chasing we see that is an angle bisector of . Therefore
(1).
That is easy to see that is on the circumcircle of . Let . Then we have and . Then
(2) since and .
Let , , , . Then by the very well known fact that is the midpoint of , , , , . Applying Menelaus Theorem on the triangle with respect to the collinear points gives
Applying Menelaus Theorem on the triangle with respect to the collinear points gives
Therefore , that is
(3).
Finally (1), (2) and (3) result
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