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Geometry Difficulty 6.4 National olympiad Prove it Iran

Consider triangle ABCABC with orthocenter HH. Let points MM and NN be the midpoints of segments BCBC and AHAH. Point DD lies on line MHMH so that ADBCAD \parallel BC and point KK lies on line AHAH so that DNMKDNMK is cyclic. Points EE and FF lie on lines ACAC and ABAB such that EHM=C\angle EHM = \angle C and FHM=B\angle FHM = \angle B. Prove that points D,E,FD, E, F and KK lie on a circle.

Solution

First we prove that EE, MM and FF are collinear. Let HH' be the reflection of HH with respect to MM. It is known that AHAH' is diameter of circumcircle of triangle ABCABC, and so HCA=90\angle H'CA = 90^\circ.

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Let EE' be the intersection point of perpendicular line to HHHH' through MM with ACAC. The goal is to show that EEE' \equiv E.
HME+HCE=180\angle H'ME' + \angle H'CE' = 180^\circ, thus HMECH'ME'C is a cyclic quadrilateral and thus
C=EHM=EHM    EE \angle C = \angle EH'M = \angle E'HM \implies E' \equiv E
Using the same argument, it is proved that HMF=90\angle HMF = 90^\circ. So EFEF is the perpendicular bisector of HHHH'. Hence EE, MM and FF are collinear. Now we show that DAHKDAH'K is cyclic and points EE and FF lie on the circumcircle passing through these points. Notice that
HMHH=HNHA=12, \frac{HM}{HH'} = \frac{HN}{HA} = \frac{1}{2},
therefore AHMNAH' \parallel MN and MDK=MNK=HAK\angle MDK = \angle MNK = \angle H'AK so DAHKDAH'K is cyclic. It suffices to prove that EE lies on circumcircle of DAHDAH'.
EHD=CDAE=A+B}    EHD+DAE=180    DAEH is cyclic. \left. \begin{array}{l} \angle EH'D = \angle C \\ \angle DAE = \angle A + \angle B \end{array} \right\} \implies \angle EH'D + \angle DAE = 180^\circ \\ \implies DAEH' \text{ is cyclic.}
Hence the claim of the problem.

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