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Geometry Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it Saudi Arabia

Let ADAD be the altitude of the right angled triangle ABCABC with A=90\angle A = 90^{\circ}. Let DEDE be the altitude of the triangle ADBADB and DZDZ be the altitude of the triangle ADCADC respectively. Let NN be chosen on the line ABAB such that CNCN is parallel to EZEZ. Let AA' be the symmetric of AA with respect to the line EZEZ and I,KI, K the projections of AA' onto ABAB and ACAC respectively. Prove that NAT=ADT\angle NA'T = \angle ADT, where TT is the intersection point of IKIK and DEDE.

Solution

Suppose that the line AAAA' intersects the lines EZEZ, BCBC and CNCN at the points LL, MM, FF respectively. The line IKIK being diagonal of the rectangle KAIAKA'IA passes through LL, which by construction of AA' is the middle of the other diagonal AAAA'. The triangles ZALZAL and ALEALE are similar, so ZAL=AEZ\angle ZAL = \angle AEZ. By the similarity of the triangles ABCABC and DABDAB we get ACB=BAD\angle ACB = \angle BAD. We have also that AEZ=BAD\angle AEZ = \angle BAD, therefore
ZAL=CAM=ACB=ACM \angle ZAL = \angle CAM = \angle ACB = \angle ACM
Since AFCNAF \perp CN, we have that the right angled triangles AFCAFC and CDACDA are equal. Thus the altitudes from the vertices FF and DD of triangles AFCAFC and CDACDA are respectively equal. It follows that FDACFD \parallel AC and since DEACDE \parallel AC we get that the points E,D,FE, D, F are collinear. In triangle LFTLFT we have
AIFT and LAI=LIA, A'I \parallel FT \text{ and } \angle LA'I = \angle LIA',
so LFT=LTF\angle LFT = \angle LTF. Therefore the points F,A,I,TF, A', I, T belong to the same circle. Also AIN=AFN=90\angle A'IN = \angle A'FN = 90^{\circ} so the quadrilateral IAFNIA'FN is cyclic. Thus the points F,A,I,NF, A', I, N all lie on a circle. From the above, we infer that
NAT=TFN=ACF=FEZ=ADT \angle NA'T = \angle TFN = \angle ACF = \angle FEZ = \angle ADT

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