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Geometry Difficulty 6.1 National olympiad Prove it Belarus

The external angle bisector of the angle AA of an acute-angled triangle ABCABC meets the circumcircle of ABC\triangle ABC at point TT. The perpendicular from the orthocenter HH of ABC\triangle ABC to the line TATA meets the line BCBC at point PP. The line TPTP meets the circumcircle of ABC\triangle ABC at point DD.

Prove that AB2+DC2=AC2+BD2AB^2 + DC^2 = AC^2 + BD^2.

Solution

Let lal_a be the bisectrix of A\angle A. Then laATl_a \perp AT and PHlaPH \parallel l_a (as, by condition, PHATPH \perp AT). Further,
(BH,HP)=(BH,AC)+(AC,HP)=90+(AC,la)=90+(la,AB)=90+(HP,AB)=(HP,AB)+(AB,CH)=(HP,CH). \angle (BH, HP) = \angle (BH, AC) + \angle (AC, HP) = 90^\circ + \angle (AC, l_a) = 90^\circ + \angle (l_a, AB) = 90^\circ + \angle (HP, AB) = \angle (HP, AB) + \angle (AB, CH) = \angle (HP, CH).
Hence, HPHP is the bisectrix of BHC\angle BHC.

Let AHAH meet the circumcircle of ABC\triangle ABC at D1AD_1 \neq A. We have D1BC=90C=HBC\angle D_1BC = 90^\circ - \angle C = \angle HBC and, similarly, D1CB=HCB\angle D_1CB = \angle HCB. Then the triangles BHCBHC and BD1CBD_1C are equal, Hence, D1PD_1P is the bisectrix of BD1C\angle BD_1C. Therefore, D1PD_1P intersects the circumcircle at the middle of the arc BACBAC, i.e. at the point TT. So, D1=DD_1 = D and ADBCAD \perp BC. Thus the statement follows from the well-known

Lemma. The diagonals of the quadrilateral ABCDABCD are perpendicular if and only if AB2+CD2=AC2+BD2AB^2 + CD^2 = AC^2 + BD^2.

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