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Geometry Difficulty 6.4 National olympiad Prove it Iran

Let ABCABC be an acute-angled triangle and DD be the foot of altitude from AA. Let KK, LL be the touching points of tangent lines from DD to the circles with diagonals ABAB and ACAC, respectively. Point SS is given on the plane such that
ABC+ABS=ACB+ACS=180. \angle ABC + \angle ABS = \angle ACB + \angle ACS = 180^\circ.
Prove that AA, KK, LL and SS lie on a circle.

Solution

Suppose that LL and KK lie on the circumcircle of ABDABD and ADCADC, respectively.
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Note that LAB=90ABL=90ADL=90ACB\angle LAB = 90^\circ - \angle ABL = 90^\circ - \angle ADL = 90^\circ - \angle ACB. Similarly we have CAK=90CBA\angle CAK = 90^\circ - \angle CBA. Summing these two implies that LAK=2BAC\angle LAK = 2\angle BAC. Denote by TT the intersection of BLBL, CKCK, then
TBC=180CBAABL=180CBAACB=BAC, \angle TBC = 180^\circ - \angle CBA - \angle ABL = 180^\circ - \angle CBA - \angle ACB = \angle BAC,
and similarly TCB=BAC\angle TCB = \angle BAC. Therefore ABCABC is an isosceles triangle and CTB=1802BAC\angle CTB = 180^\circ - 2\angle BAC. Similarly, one can show that CSB=1802BAC\angle CSB = 180^\circ - 2\angle BAC and so quadrilateral BCTSBCTS is cyclic. Properties of SS imply that AA is the SS-excenter of the triangle BCSBCS and so SASA is the angle bisector of BSC\angle BSC. Let MM be the midpoint of the arc BCBC (the one that does not contain SS) in the circumcircle of BCSBCS. Clearly MM lies on SASA.
On the other hand, since triangle BTCBTC is isosceles, MTMT is a diagonal of the circumcircle of BCSBCS. Thus, we can conclude that
AST=MST=90=AKT=ALT. \angle AST = \angle MST = 90^\circ = \angle AKT = \angle ALT.
This implies AKLSAKLS is cyclic as desired. ■

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