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Geometry Difficulty 6.5 National Olympiad Prove it Croatia

An acute-angled triangle ABCABC is given, such that AB>AC|AB| > |AC|. Let OO be the centre of the circumcircle, and let OQOQ be a diameter of the circumcircle of triangle BOCBOC. The line parallel to BCBC passing through AA intersects the line CQCQ at MM, while the line parallel to CQCQ and passing through AA intersects the line BCBC at NN. Denote by TT the intersection of AQAQ and MNMN.
Show that TT lies on the circumcircle of triangle BOCBOC.
(Ukraine 2005)

Solution

Let the line AQAQ intersect the circumcircle of BOCBOC at point QQ and TT'. Notice that OQ\overline{OQ} is a diameter of this circle, so OTQ=90\angle OT'Q = 90^\circ.
Let PP be the midpoint of the segment AC\overline{AC}. Since OO is the centre of the circumcircle of ABCABC, we have OPA=90\angle OPA = 90^\circ.
From here, we get OTA=180OTQ=90=OPA\angle OT'A = 180^\circ - \angle OT'Q = 90^\circ = \angle OPA, which implies that the quadrilateral AOTPAOT'P is cyclic.

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Notice that point PP lies on the line MNMN (moreover, PP is the midpoint of MN\overline{MN}) because ANCMANCM is a parallelogram. Thus,
ATM=ATP=AOP=12AOC=ABC. \angle AT'M = \angle AT'P = \angle AOP = \frac{1}{2} \angle AOC = \angle ABC.
As in the previous solution, we show that the quadrilateral ABNTABNT' is cyclic and that the points M,NM, N and TT' are collinear. This implies TTT \equiv T', which concludes the proof.

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