41. (POL 6) A line is drawn through the intersection point of the altitudes of an acute-angled triangle. Prove that the symmetric images , of with respect to sides have one point in common, which lies on the circumcircle of .
Solution
41. It is well known that the points , symmetric to with respect to respectively, lie on the circumcircle of the triangle . For , this follows from an elementary calculation of angles of triangles and noting that . For other points the proof is analogous. Since the lines pass through and and is obtained from by rotation about for an angle , it follows that the intersection point of and is at the circumcircle of , that is, . Similarly, and meet at a point on ; hence they must pass through the same point . !
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