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Geometry Difficulty 4.9 AIME Prove it Iran

Let ABCDABCD be a rhombus and let ω\omega be its incircle. Let MM be the midpoint of ABAB and KK be a point inside ABCDABCD such that MKMK is tangent to ω\omega. Prove that CDKMCDKM is cyclic.

Solution

Let LL be the intersection of KMKM and CDCD. The quadrilateral MLCBMLCB has an incircle centered at OO. So OLOL and OMOM are angle-bisectors of ∠MLC\angle MLC and ∠BML\angle BML, respectively. Further, BM∥CLBM \parallel CL, these two arguments yielding ∠LOM=90∘\angle LOM = 90^\circ. Therefore LOLO is tangent to the circumcircle of OKMOKM, since ∠MKO=90∘\angle MKO = 90^\circ. Moreover, ∠LOM=∠AOD\angle LOM = \angle AOD implies that
∠LOD=∠AOM=∠BAC=∠LCO. \angle LOD = \angle AOM = \angle BAC = \angle LCO.

Hence LOLO is also tangent to the circumcircle of the triangle DOCDOC. Therefore we would have
LD⋅LC=LO2=LK⋅LM, LD \cdot LC = LO^2 = LK \cdot LM,
so MKDCMKDC is cyclic. As desired.

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