Prove that the center of the circumcircle O, the centroid G, and the orthocenter H of any triangle ABC are collinear and that .
Problem 924
Official solution
We call , and the feet of the medians from , and respectively . We call the homothety with center and ratio . We call the point , as shown in Figure 1, and we see that it suffices to show . One of the properties of homotheties shows that
However, it is known that is located one-third of the way from and two-thirds of the way from , so . Thus, we have:
Since is the perpendicular bisector of the segment and, consequently, . Similarly, , so lies on two altitudes of the triangle. Thus .