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Geometry Difficulty 6.1 National olympiad Prove it Bulgaria

Let MM be the midpoint of the segment ABAB and CC be an interior point of the segment ABAB, CMC \neq M. The isosceles triangles ACKACK (AK=CKAK = CK) and BCLBCL (BL=CLBL = CL) lie in the same halfplane with respect to ABAB and are such that the points K,C,LK, C, L and MM are concyclic. Prove that either KLABKL \parallel AB or KALBKA \perp LB.

Solution

We may assume that AC<BCAC < BC. Denote by kk the circumcircle of KCL\triangle KCL and by K1K_1 and L1L_1 the midpoints of ACAC and BCBC, respectively. Then KK1LL1KK_1 \parallel LL_1, i.e. KK1L1LKK_1L_1L is a trapezoid. If TT is the midpoint of CMCM then
CM=BCAC2,CT=BCAC4, CM = \frac{BC - AC}{2}, \quad CT = \frac{BC - AC}{4},
K1T=AC2+BCAC4=BC+AC4, K_1T = \frac{AC}{2} + \frac{BC - AC}{4} = \frac{BC + AC}{4},
L1T=BC2BCAC4=BC+AC4. L_1T = \frac{BC}{2} - \frac{BC - AC}{4} = \frac{BC + AC}{4}.
Therefore TT is the midpoint of K1L1K_1L_1.

Let tt be the segment whose ends are the midpoints of KLKL and K1L1K_1L_1. Then TtT \in t, tK1L1t \perp K_1L_1 and tt is a diameter of kk, since TT is the midpoint of the chord CMCM and tCMt \perp CM.
If tKL=Ot \cap KL = O, then OO is the midpoint of the chord KLKL. Hence we have two possibilities:
1) tKLt \perp KL – then KLABKL \parallel AB;
2) KLKL is a diameter of kk. Then KCL=90\angle KCL = 90^\circ and KCA+LCB=90\angle KCA + \angle LCB = 90^\circ. But KAC=KCA\angle KAC = \angle KCA and LBC=LCB\angle LBC = \angle LCB, which implies that KAC+LBC=90\angle KAC + \angle LBC = 90^\circ, i.e. KALBKA \perp LB.

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