Let be a triangle satisfying and let be the point on the side such that . Let be the incenter of and be the intersection of the circumcircle of and the line which is not . Let be the intersection of the line and the line which is parallel to and passing . Let be the incenter of and be the reflection of with respect to . Suppose that two lines and meet at the point . Show that .
Solution
First, we will show that the line passes the midpoint of a side .
Let be the intersection of two lines and , and be the intersection of two lines and . By using Menelaus' theorem to the triangle and the line , we have
Also, by the angle bisector theorem, we get
In other hand, since and , four points are cyclic, therefore . From the fact , we have
By the fact again, we know , hence we get
so we obtain and therefore
The fact also implies
From (1), (2), (3), (4), we get , and is the midpoint of the line segment , as desired.
Now let be the midpoint of the side . Then since is similar to , we have , and by the midpoint theorem we get . We already know that the points are collinear, so holds, and we get .
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