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Geometry Difficulty 6.0 National olympiad Prove it Bulgaria

Isosceles ABC\triangle ABC (AC=BCAC = BC) is inscribed in a circle kk. A point MM lies on the side BCBC. A point NN from the ray AMAM (MM lies between AA and NN) is such that AN=ACAN = AC. The circumcircle of MCN\triangle MCN intersects kk at CC and PP, where PP is from the arc BCBC, not containing AA. The lines ABAB and CPCP intersect at QQ. Prove that QMB=QMN\angle QMB = \angle QMN.

Solution

Denote MAC=α\angle MAC = \alpha and ACB=β\angle ACB = \beta. Let JJ be the incenter of AMC\triangle AMC. It follows that AJM=90+β/2\angle AJM = 90^\circ + \beta/2 and ABM=90β/2\angle ABM = 90^\circ - \beta/2, which implies that the quadrilateral ABMJABMJ is inscribed in a circle k1k_1. Analogously we have that the quadrilateral MNCJMNCJ is inscribed in a circle k2k_2 which in fact is the the circumcircle of MCN\triangle MCN. Therefore PP is a point of k2k_2. Since QAQB=QCQPQA \cdot QB = QC \cdot QP, we conclude that QQ has one and the same degree with respect to k1k_1 and k2k_2. Hence QQ lies on JMJM, which is the angular bisector of BNC\angle BNC. This implies the desired equality QMB=QMN\angle QMB = \angle QMN.

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