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Geometry Difficulty 7.0 National olympiad, round 2 Prove it Croatia

Let kk be a circle centred at OO. Let AB\overline{AB} be a chord of that circle and MM its midpoint. Tangents on kk at points AA and BB intersect at TT. The line \ell goes through TT, intersects the shorter arc \overarcAB\overarc{AB} at the point CC and the longer arc \overarcAB\overarc{AB} at the point DD, so that BC=BM|BC| = |BM|.
Prove that the circumcentre of the triangle ADM is the reflection of O across the line AD.

Solution

Since CC and DD are on kk, the power of the point TT with respect to kk equals TB2=TCTD|TB|^2 = |TC| \cdot |TD|.

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Furthermore, since the right-angled triangles TBMTBM and TOBTOB are similar, we have TB2=TMTO|TB|^2 = |TM| \cdot |TO|. Therefore, TCTD=TMTO|TC| \cdot |TD| = |TM| \cdot |TO|, i.e. the quadrilateral CDOMCDOM is cyclic.

Let point CC' be the intersection of kk and the line DMDM, while α=CMC\alpha = \angle C'MC. Now we have
CCM=CCD=12COD=12CMD=12(180CMC)=9012α, \angle C'C'M = \angle C'C'D = \frac{1}{2}\angle COD = \frac{1}{2}\angle CMD = \frac{1}{2}(180^\circ - \angle C'MC) = 90^\circ - \frac{1}{2}\alpha,
therefore MCC=180α(9012α)=9012α=CCM\angle MCC' = 180^\circ - \alpha - (90^\circ - \frac{1}{2}\alpha) = 90^\circ - \frac{1}{2}\alpha = \angle CC'M, i.e. CM=CM|C'M| = |CM|, meaning that CC' is the reflection of CC across the line OMOM, and AC=AM|AC'| = |AM| holds. Let MM' be the point on kk different from CC' such that AM=AC|AM'| = |AC'|. Then
MDA=CDA=MDA. \angle M'DA = \angle C'DA = \angle MDA.
We can conclude that triangles MDAMDA and MDAM'DA are congruent (two pairs of congruent sides, one pair of congruent angles, and both are obtuse), so MM' is the reflection of MM across the line ADAD. The fact that OO is the circumcentre of the triangle ADMADM' completes the proof.

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