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Geometry Difficulty 6.4 National olympiad Prove it Iran

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle and MM be the midpoint of ABAB. Let KK be a point such that KBKB intersects the line ACAC, KMC=90\angle KMC = 90^\circ and KAC=180ABC\angle KAC = 180^\circ - \angle ABC. The tangent line to circumcircle of triangle ABCABC at AA intersects line CKCK at EE. Prove that the reflection of line BCBC with respect to CMCM passes through the midpoint of MEME.

Solution

Note that KAKA is parallel to the tangent line from CC to the circumcircle of ABCABC. Therefore, if we denote by OO the circumcenter of ABCABC, then COKACO \perp KA. So, denoting by FF the intersection point of KAKA and COCO, we have KFC=90\angle KFC = 90^\circ. On the other hand, KMC=90\angle KMC = 90^\circ, therefore KCFMKCFM is cyclic. We then have AFO=AMO=90\angle AFO = \angle AMO = 90^\circ, hence the quadrilateral OFAMOFAM is also cyclic. Thus,
MCE=MCK=MFK=MFA=MOA=BCA. \angle MCE = \angle MCK = \angle MFK = \angle MFA = \angle MOA = \angle BCA.
On the other hand, 180BCA=BAE=MAE180^\circ - \angle BCA = \angle BAE = \angle MAE. These facts together imply that AECMAECM is cyclic.
Note that CEM=CAM=CAB\angle CEM = \angle CAM = \angle CAB, hence BCAMCE\triangle BCA \sim \triangle MCE. Now denote the midpoint of MEME by DD. As MM is the midpoint of BABA, similarity of triangles BCABCA and MCEMCE implies that BCM=MCD\angle BCM = \angle MCD. Analogously, DD lies on the reflection of line BCBC with respect to CMCM, as desired.

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