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Geometry Difficulty 5.7 AIME, harder Prove it Austria

Let ABCABC be a triangle, and OO its circumcenter. The circumcircle of triangle AOCAOC shall intersect the segment BCBC in points CC and DD and the segment ABAB in points AA and EE.
Prove that triangles BDEBDE and AOCAOC have equal circumradii.

Solution

In the circumcircle of triangle ABCABC we have COA=2CBA\angle COA = 2\angle CBA. In the circumcircle of ADCADC we therefore have CDA=COA=2CBA\angle CDA = \angle COA = 2\angle CBA. The angle CDA\angle CDA is an external angle in triangle ABDABD, and we therefore obtain CBA+BAD=CDA=2CBA\angle CBA + \angle BAD = \angle CDA = 2\angle CBA, and thus BAD=CBA\angle BAD = \angle CBA. In the circumcircle of AOCAOC we obtain BAD=EAD\angle BAD = \angle EAD on the chord EDED. The angles CBA=DBE\angle CBA = \angle DBE are equal in the circumcircle of triangle BDEBDE on the same chord EDED. Since the chords and subtended angles are equal in both circles, they must have the same radii, as claimed.

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