A convex quadrilateral has the incircle . The diagonal intersects at the points and . Let and be the midpoints of the arcs of such that the points and lie in one halfplane with respect to the line while the points and — in another.
Prove that the lines , and are concurrent.
Solution
Without loss of generality assume that lies between and . Let the line passing through parallel to intersect the sides and at the points and respectively. Since is the midpoint of the arc , the line is parallel to whence is the tangency point of -excircle of the triangle . Thus the point is the tangency point of -excircle of the triangle . Therefore
we used the fact that the difference equals to the difference between the lengths of the tangents from and to .
Note that doesn't depend on , this circle must only pass through and . Therefore if then , i.e. and , and are concurrent.
Want a route through all this instead of an archive? The track
puts 2,000 problems in a working order, from AMC 10 level to the IMO shortlist.