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Geometry Difficulty 6.3 National olympiad Prove it Belarus

A point A1A_1 is marked inside an acute non-isosceles triangle ABCABC such that A1AB=A1BC\angle A_1AB = \angle A_1BC and A1AC=A1CB\angle A_1AC = \angle A_1CB.

Points B1B_1 and C1C_1 are defined in the same way. Let GG be the gravity center of the triangle ABCABC.

Prove that the points A1,B1,C1,GA_1, B_1, C_1, G are concyclic.

Solution

There is nothing to prove if some two of four points A1A_1, B1B_1, C1C_1, GG coincide. So, we can assume that all these points are pairwise distinct.

Let Γ\Gamma and Γ(A1)\Gamma(A_1) denote the circumcircles of the triangles ABCABC and AA1BAA_1B, respectively. Let MAM_A be the intersection point of the lines AA1AA_1 and BCBC. Since A1AB=A1BC\angle A_1AB = \angle A_1BC, it follows that Γ(A1)\Gamma(A_1) touches BCBC at BB. By the Power of a Point Theorem, we have MAB2=MAA1MAAM_AB^2 = M_AA_1 \cdot M_AA, Similarly, MAC2=MAA1MAAM_AC^2 = M_AA_1 \cdot M_AA, hence MAB2=MAC2M_AB^2 = M_AC^2, so MAB=MACM_AB = M_AC, i.e., MAM_A is the midpoint of the side BCBC. Thus, A1A_1 lies on the median of the triangle ABCABC from the vertex AA. By the same arguments, B1B_1 and C1C_1 lie on the medians of the triangle ABCABC from the vertices BB and CC, respectively.

Figure 1

Let HH be the orthocenter of the triangle ABCABC. It is well known that the points which are symmetric to HH with respect to the sides of the triangle ABCABC lie on the circumcircle of ABCABC. If HAH_A is symmetric to HH with respect to the side BCBC, then HAH_A belongs to Γ\Gamma and we have
BHC=BHAC=180BAC=180(A1AB+A1AC)==180(A1BC+A1CB)=BA1C, \begin{aligned} \angle BHC &= \angle BH_A C = 180^\circ - \angle BAC = 180^\circ - (\angle A_1 AB + \angle A_1 AC) = \\ &= 180^\circ - (\angle A_1 BC + \angle A_1 CB) = \angle BA_1 C, \end{aligned}
hence the quadrilateral BA1HCBA_1HC is cyclic and A1A_1 belongs to the circle passing through the points BB, HH, CC.

Further,
HA1MA=HA1B+BA1MA=BCH+(A1BA+A1AB)==(90ABC)+(A1BA+A1BC)=90ABC+ABC=90. \begin{aligned} \angle HA_1M_A &= \angle HA_1B + \angle BA_1M_A = \angle BCH + (\angle A_1BA + \angle A_1AB) = \\ &= (90^\circ - \angle ABC) + (\angle A_1BA + \angle A_1BC) = 90^\circ - \angle ABC + \angle ABC = 90^\circ. \end{aligned}
Therefore, A1A_1 is the projection of HH on the median AMAAM_A. Similarly, B1B_1 and C1C_1 are the projections of HH on the median of the triangle ABCABC from the vertices BB and CC, respectively.

Since GG is the intersection point of the medians of ABCABC, we have HA1G=HB1G=HC1G=90\angle HA_1G = \angle HB_1G = \angle HC_1G = 90^\circ. Thus A1,B1,C1A_1, B_1, C_1 lie on the circle with the diameter GHGH, so all points A1,B1,C1,GA_1, B_1, C_1, G lie on the same circle.

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