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Taiwan IMO Selection Camp, 2022

Geometry Difficulty 5.3 AIME, harder Prove it Taiwan

Let ABCDABCD be a parallelogram with AC=BCAC = BC. Take a point PP on line ABAB such that BB lies between AA and PP. Let the circumscribed circle of triangle ACDACD meet segment PDPD again at point QQ, and let the circumscribed circle of triangle APQAPQ meet segment PCPC again at point RR.
Prove that the three lines CD,AQ,BRCD, AQ, BR are concurrent.

Solution

In each of the following solutions, the following fact is used.
Since AC=BC=ADAC = BC = AD, we have ∠ABC=∠BAC=∠ACD=∠ADC\angle ABC = \angle BAC = \angle ACD = \angle ADC. Since the quadrilaterals APRQAPRQ, AQCDAQCD both have circumscribed circles, we obtain
∠CRA=180∘−∠ARP=180∘−∠AQP=∠DQA=∠DCA=∠CBA, \angle CRA = 180^\circ - \angle ARP = 180^\circ - \angle AQP = \angle DQA = \angle DCA = \angle CBA,
hence A,B,C,RA, B, C, R are four concyclic points; denote this circle by γ\gamma.
Figure 1

Solution 1. Let point XX be the intersection of AQAQ and CDCD. The original problem is equivalent to proving that B,R,XB, R, X are collinear.
On circle (APRQ)(APRQ) we have
∠RQX=180∘−∠AQR=∠RPA=∠RCX \angle RQX = 180^\circ - \angle AQR = \angle RPA = \angle RCX
(where the last equality comes from AB∥CDAB \parallel CD), so C,Q,R,XC, Q, R, X are four concyclic points, denoted circle δ\delta.
Using circles γ\gamma, δ\delta we know that
∠XRC=∠XQC=180∘−∠CQA=∠ADC=∠BAC=180∘CRB, \angle XRC = \angle XQC = 180^\circ - \angle CQA = \angle ADC = \angle BAC = 180^\circ CRB,

Solution 2. Denote circle (APRQ)(APRQ) by α\alpha. Since
∠CAP=∠ACD=∠AQD=180∘−∠AQP, \angle CAP = \angle ACD = \angle AQD = 180^\circ - \angle AQP,
we know that line ACAC is tangent to circle α\alpha.
Figure 2
Let line ADAD meet α\alpha again at point YY; this point must lie on ray DADA behind AA. Using circle γ\gamma and the property that ACAC is tangent to α\alpha, we obtain
∠ARY=∠CAD=∠ACB=∠ARB, \angle ARY = \angle CAD = \angle ACB = \angle ARB,
so Y,B,RY, B, R are three collinear points.
Applying Pascal's theorem on the hexagon AAYRPQAAYRPQ (here AAAA refers to the tangent line to circle α\alpha passing through AA), we obtain the intersection points of three pairs of lines
AA∩RP=C,AY∩PQ=D,YR∩QA AA \cap RP = C, \quad AY \cap PQ = D, \quad YR \cap QA

Solution 3. As in Solution 1, let X=AQ∩CDX = AQ \cap CD; we prove below that B,R,XB, R, X are collinear. As in Solution 2, let α=(APRQ)\alpha = (APRQ), but here define point YY as the second intersection point of line BRBR with α\alpha.
Using circle α\alpha, and noting that line CDCD is tangent to γ\gamma, we obtain
∠RYA=∠RPA=∠RCX=∠RBC.(1) \angle RY A = \angle RPA = \angle RCX = \angle RBC. \tag{1}
Hence AY∥BCAY \parallel BC, and therefore YY lies on line DADA.
From (1) we also obtain ∠RYD=∠RCX\angle RYD = \angle RCX, so C,D,Y,RC,D,Y,R are four concyclic points on a circle β\beta. Therefore the lines CD,AQ,YBRCD, AQ, YBR are the pairwise radical axes of the three circles (AQCD)(AQCD), α,β\alpha, \beta, so they must be concurrent.

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