Let be the circumcircle of a triangle . Denote by and the midpoints of the sides and , respectively, and denote by the midpoint of the of not containing . The circumcircles of the triangles and intersect the perpendicular bisectors of and at points and , respectively; assume that and lie inside the triangle . The lines and intersect at . Prove that . (Iran)
Solution
Let be the center of , thus . Let be the perpendicular bisector of (it also passes through ). Denote by the operation of reflection about . Since is the angle bisector of , the line is parallel to . Since and , this means that the line is parallel to the line and passes through , so . Finally, the circumcircle of the triangle is symmetric about , so . Thus the point maps to the common point of with the arc of - that is, . Similarly, . Thus, we get , and the common point of and lies on . This means exactly that . !
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