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Geometry Difficulty 6.2 National olympiad Prove it Romania

Let ABCABC a triangle, II the incenter, DD the contact point of the incircle with the side BCBC and EE the foot of the bisector of the angle AA. If MM is the midpoint of the arc BCBC which contains the point AA of the circumcircle of the triangle ABCABC and {F}=DIAM\{F\} = DI \cap AM, prove that MIMI passes through the midpoint of [EF][EF].

Alexandru Gîrban

Solution

The bisector of the angle A^\hat{A} passes through the midpoint of the arc BCBC which does not contain the point AA. Denote this point by SS. MSMS is the perpendicular bisector of [BC][BC], so MSIDMS \parallel ID (both lines are perpendicular on BCBC).

Also, ASC=ABC\angle ASC = \angle ABC and SAC=BAE\angle SAC = \angle BAE proves that the triangles SACSAC and BAEBAE are similar, so ABBE=ASSC\frac{AB}{BE} = \frac{AS}{SC}.

Using the angle bisector theorem, we get ABBE=AIIE\frac{AB}{BE} = \frac{AI}{IE}.

It is known that SI=SCSI = SC (one might compute the angles of triangle SCISCI). We have ASSC=ASSI=AMMF\frac{AS}{SC} = \frac{AS}{SI} = \frac{AM}{MF}.

We proved AIIE=AMMF\frac{AI}{IE} = \frac{AM}{MF}.

Using Menelaus's theorem in the triangle AEFAEF and the transversal IXMI-X-M (where {X}=IMEF\{X\} = IM \cap EF), we have AIIEEXXFMFMA=1\frac{AI}{IE} \cdot \frac{EX}{XF} \cdot \frac{MF}{MA} = 1.

Using the equality we proved before, we find EXXF=1\frac{EX}{XF} = 1, which means that XX is the midpoint of [EF][EF].

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