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Geometry Difficulty 4.3 AIME Prove it United States

Problem:

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle with orthocenter HH, circumcenter OO, and incenter II. Prove that ray AIAI bisects HAO\angle HAO.

Solution

Solution:

Without loss of generality, AB<ACAB < AC. It follows that BAH=90B\angle BAH = 90^{\circ} - \angle B, since the extension of AHAH is perpendicular to BCBC. Moreover, we also have AOC=2B\angle AOC = 2\angle B; but since OA=OCOA = OC, this implies OAC=12(180AOC)=90B\angle OAC = \frac{1}{2}\left(180^{\circ} - \angle AOC\right) = 90^{\circ} - \angle B. So we conclude that BAH=CAO\angle BAH = \angle CAO. Since BAI=CAI\angle BAI = \angle CAI as well, it follows that HAI=OAI\angle HAI = \angle OAI, which is what we wanted to prove.

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