an easy geo from Iran
by achilles04, Mar 2, 2015, 10:41 AM
Thanks utkarsh for making me a contributor. 
here is a problem from Iranian geometry olympiad. It's an easy one and really demonstrates the power of radical axis. In the last part I used coordinates as I was feeling too lazy to use my brain but I think there are several other ways to do it.
Sorry for the edit but couldn't really resist
Nice proof
My proof (second one) demonstrates angle chasing can be used where lots of angles are given
Problem:
Question
is a triangle with
and
. Let
be the midpoint of
. Let
be a circle passing through
tangent in
to
. Let
be the circumcircle of
.
is intersecting
in
and
in
. Prove that
is perpendicular to
.
Solution 1 (Radical Axis)(Achilles04):
Let
be the center of
and
be that of
.
Here we see that
( as
and
) so
is tangent to
. Moreover
. So
lies on
. This shows that
as
is the diameter of
. Also we see that
is the radical axis of the two circles. Now if we prove that
then we are done. This is easy to prove. For this I used coordinate...
Let
be the
be the
let
. So we find that equation of
is
and that of
is
, so equation of radical axis
we find the slope of this radical axis and see that it is equal to
slope of
. This proves that
or 
Solution 2 (Angle Chasing)(utkarshgupta) :
(
is tangent to
)
But since
= Radius of 
is equilateral

is perpendicular to

Simple and direct

here is a problem from Iranian geometry olympiad. It's an easy one and really demonstrates the power of radical axis. In the last part I used coordinates as I was feeling too lazy to use my brain but I think there are several other ways to do it.
Sorry for the edit but couldn't really resist

Nice proof
My proof (second one) demonstrates angle chasing can be used where lots of angles are given

Problem:
Question


















Solution 1 (Radical Axis)(Achilles04):
Let




Here we see that













Let














Solution 2 (Angle Chasing)(utkarshgupta) :



But since







Simple and direct

This post has been edited 2 times. Last edited by utkarshgupta, Mar 2, 2015, 2:12 PM