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Geometry Difficulty 4.5 AIME Prove it Belarus

Let the incircle of the triangle ABCABC touch the side ABAB at point QQ; the incircles of the triangles QACQAC and QBCQBC touch AQAQ, ACAC and BQBQ, BCBC at points PP, TT and DD, FF, respectively.
Prove that PDFTPDFT is a cyclic quadrilateral.

Solution

(Solution by A. Gaponenko, D. Voynov.) First, note that incircles of the triangles QACQAC and QBCQBC touch CQCQ at the same point XX (well-known fact). Hence CF=CX=CTCF = CX = CT. Also AP=ATAP = AT, BF=BDBF = BD. Now we have
TFD=180TFCBFD= \angle TFD = 180^\circ - \angle TFC - \angle BFD =
=180(9012C)(9012B)= = 180^\circ - (90^\circ - \frac{1}{2} \angle C) - (90^\circ - \frac{1}{2} \angle B) =
=12(C+B)=9012A=APT. = \frac{1}{2}(\angle C + \angle B) = 90^\circ - \frac{1}{2} \angle A = \angle APT.
It follows that
TFD+TPD=TFD+(180APT)=180 \angle TFD + \angle TPD = \angle TFD + (180^\circ - \angle APT) = 180^\circ
which finishes the proof.

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