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Geometry Difficulty 5.8 AIME, harder Prove it

41. (POL 6) A line ll is drawn through the intersection point HH of the altitudes of an acute-angled triangle. Prove that the symmetric images lal_{a}, lb,lcl_{b}, l_{c} of ll with respect to sides BC,CA,ABB C, C A, A B have one point in common, which lies on the circumcircle of ABCA B C.

Solution

41. It is well known that the points K,L,MK, L, M, symmetric to HH with respect to BC,CA,ABB C, C A, A B respectively, lie on the circumcircle kk of the triangle ABCA B C. For KK, this follows from an elementary calculation of angles of triangles HBCH B C and noting that KBC=HBC=KAC\measuredangle K B C=\measuredangle H B C=\measuredangle K A C. For other points the proof is analogous. Since the lines la,lbl_{a}, l_{b} pass through KK and LL and lbl_{b} is obtained from lal_{a} by rotation about CC for an angle 2γ=LCK2 \gamma=\angle L C K, it follows that the intersection point PP of lal_{a} and lbl_{b} is at the circumcircle of KLCK L C, that is, kk. Similarly, lbl_{b} and lcl_{c} meet at a point on kk; hence they must pass through the same point PP. !

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