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Geometry Difficulty 7.0 National olympiad Prove it

Let ABCDA B C D be a cyclic quadrilateral with AB<CDA B<C D. The diagonals intersect at the point FF and lines ADA D and BCB C intersect at the point EE. Let KK and LL be the orthogonal projections of FF onto lines ADA D and BCB C respectively, and let M,SM, S and TT be the midpoints of EF,CFE F, C F and DFD F respectively. Prove that the second intersection point of the circumcircles of triangles MKTM K T and MLSM L S lies on the segment CDC D.

Solution

Let NN be the midpoint of CDC D. We will prove that the circumcircles of the triangles MKTM K T and MLSM L S pass through NN. (1)
First will prove that the circumcircle of MLSM L S passes through NN.
Let QQ be the midpoint of ECE C. Note that the circumcircle of MLSM L S is the Euler circle (2) of the triangle EFCE F C, so it passes also through Q.()(3)Q .\left({ }^{*}\right)(3)
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We will prove that

SLQ=QNS or SLQ+QNS=180 \angle S L Q=\angle Q N S \quad \text { or } \quad \angle S L Q+\angle Q N S=180^{\circ}

Indeed, since FLCF L C is right-angled and LSL S is its median, we have that SL=SCS L=S C and

SLC=SCL=ACB \angle S L C=\angle S C L=\angle A C B

In addition, since NN and SS are the midpoints of DCD C and FCF C we have that SNFDS N \| F D and similarly, since QQ and NN are the midpoints of ECE C and CDC D, so QNEDQ N \| E D.
It follows that the angles EDB\angle E D B and QNS\angle Q N S have parallel sides, and since AB<CDA B<C D, they are acute, and as a result we have that

EDB=QNS or EDB+QNS=180 \angle E D B=\angle Q N S \quad \text { or } \quad \angle E D B+\angle Q N S=180^{\circ}

But, from the cyclic quadrilateral ABCDA B C D, we get that

EDB=ACB \angle E D B=\angle A C B

Now, from (2),(3) and (4) we obtain immediately (1), so the quadrilateral LNSQL N S Q is cyclic. Since from ()\left(^{*}\right), its circumcircle passes also through MM, we get that the points M,L,Q,S,NM, L, Q, S, N are cocylic and this means that the circumcircle of MLSM L S passes through NN.
Similarly, the circumcircle of MKTM K T passes also through NN and we have the desired.

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