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Geometry Difficulty 6.5 National olympiad Prove it Slovenia

Let OO be the circumcentre of the acute triangle ABCABC and denote the circumcircle by κ\kappa. The bisector of the inner angle at AA meets κ\kappa again at DD. The bisector of the inner angle at BB meets κ\kappa again at EE. Let II denote the incentre of the triangle ABCABC. How much does the angle ACB\angle ACB measure if the points D,E,OD, E, O and II lie on the same circle?

Solution

The triangle ABCABC is acute, so the points II and OO lie on the same side of the line EDED. The condition that the points DD, EE, II and OO lie on the same circle therefore implies that DOE=DIE\angle DOE = \angle DIE.

Let us denote the angles of the triangle by α\alpha, β\beta and γ\gamma and let us express the angles DOE\angle DOE and DIE\angle DIE in these terms.

We have DOE=EOC+COD\angle DOE = \angle EOC + \angle COD. Since the central angle is always twice the inscribed angle, we get COE=2CBE\angle COE = 2\angle CBE. The line EBEB is the bisector of the angle CBACBA, so CBE=β2\angle CBE = \frac{\beta}{2}. Hence, COE=2CBE=β\angle COE = 2\angle CBE = \beta.

Similarly, we have DOC=2DAC=2α2=α\angle DOC = 2\angle DAC = 2 \cdot \frac{\alpha}{2} = \alpha and so DOE=α+β\angle DOE = \alpha + \beta.

Also, DIE=AIB=πBAIIBA=πα2β2\angle DIE = \angle AIB = \pi - \angle BAI - \angle IBA = \pi - \frac{\alpha}{2} - \frac{\beta}{2}.

The identity DOE=DIE\angle DOE = \angle DIE implies that π=32(α+β)\pi = \frac{3}{2}(\alpha + \beta) or α+β=2π3\alpha + \beta = \frac{2\pi}{3}.

We conclude that γ=παβ=π3\gamma = \pi - \alpha - \beta = \frac{\pi}{3}.

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