11. G5 (FRA) Let be a triangle, its incircle and three circles orthogonal to passing through and and , and and respectively. The circles meet again in ; in the same way we obtain the points and . Prove that the radius of the circumcircle of is half the radius of .
Solution
11. Let be the incircle of . Let , and denote the points where touches , and , respectively. Let , and denote the midpoints of , and respectively. We prove that passes through and . Since and , we obtain . We conclude that , and lie on a single circle . Moreover, since the power of with respect to is , it follows for a tangent from to that lies on and hence is perpendicular to . From the uniqueness of it follows that . Thus contains and . Similarly contains and and contains and . Hence, and . Therefore the radius of the circumcircle of is half the radius of .
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