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Geometry Difficulty 6.6 National olympiad Prove it

The triangle ABCA B C is right-angled at AA. Let MM be the midpoint of the segment BCB C. The point DD lies on the side ACA C and satisfies AD=AM\overline{A D}=\overline{A M}. The intersection point of the circumcircles of triangles AMCA M C and BDCB D C, different from CC, is called PP. Prove that CPC P bisects the angle at CC of triangle ABCA B C.

Solution

The angle \varanglePDC\varangle P D C is on the one hand the adjacent angle of \varangleADP\varangle A D P, and on the other hand, it lies in the cyclic quadrilateral BPDCB P D C opposite the angle \varangleCBP\varangle C B P. Consequently, \varangleADP=\varangleCBP\varangle A D P = \varangle C B P. Similarly, the angle \varangleCMP\varangle C M P is the adjacent angle of \varanglePMB\varangle P M B and lies in the cyclic quadrilateral APMCA P M C opposite the angle \varanglePAC\varangle P A C, so \varanglePMB=\varanglePAC\varangle P M B = \varangle P A C. The triangles PBMP B M and PDAP D A thus agree in the interior angles at BB and DD as well as at MM and AA, and furthermore, by assumption, AD=AM=MB\overline{A D} = \overline{A M} = \overline{M B} (the last equality follows from Thales' theorem). According to the congruence theorem wsw, the triangles PBMP B M and PDAP D A are congruent, in particular, their heights from PP are of equal length. They are, however, the perpendiculars from PP to the triangle sides CAC A and CBC B, so PP lies on the angle bisector.

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