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Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle. Let D be a point on the segment BC, I the incentre of ABC. The circumcircle of ABD meets BI at P and the circumcircle of ACD meets CI at Q. If the area of PID and the area of QID are equal, prove that PI*QD=QI*PD.
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Let ABC be an acute-angled triangle. Let D be a point on the segment BC, I the incentre of ABC. The circumcircle of ABD meets BI at P and the circumcircle of ACD meets CI at Q. If the area of PID and the area of QID are equal, prove that PI*QD=QI*PD.
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May I know what CHKMO stands for ?

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noobatron3000 wrote:
Let $ABC$ be an acute-angled triangle. Let $D$ be a point on the segment $BC,$ $I$ the incentre of $ABC.$ The circumcircle of $ABD$ meets $BI$ at $P$ and the circumcircle of $ACD$ meets $CI$ at $Q.$ If the area of $PID$ and the area of $QID$ are equal, prove that $PI\cdot QD=QI\cdot PD.$

Let $E$ be a point on $BC$ such that $(B,C;D,E)=-1.$ The condition that $[PID]=[QID]$ implies that $ID$ is median. Notice that $-1=(IP,IQ;ID,\infty)\stackrel{I}{=}(B,C;D,E) \implies IE\perp AD.$ Now we cliam that $D$ is the foot of $I$ on $BC.$
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WLOG assume $AB>AC.$ We use barycentric coordinate. Set $D=(0:m:a-m)$ and $E=(0:t:a+b+c-t)$ where $0<m<a$ and $\tfrac{t}{a+b+c-t}=\tfrac{-m}{a-m}\implies t=\tfrac{m(a+b+c)}{2m-a}.$ Thus
\[\overrightarrow{DA}=(a,-m,m-a),\quad \overrightarrow{EI}=(a,b-t,t-a-b).\]By the perpendicular formula we get
\[0=a^2(m(a+b)-mt+mb-mt-ab+at)+b^2(at-a^2-ab+ma-a^2)+c^2(ab-at-ma),\]collect the $t$ terms we get
\[(2ma-a^2+c^2-b^2)t=am(a+2b)-b(a^2+b^2+2ab-c^2)+m(b^2-c^2).\]Substitute $a(2m-a)t=am(a+b+c)$ we get
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(c^2-b^2)t&=am(b-c)+m(b^2-c^2)-b((a+b)^2-c^2)\\
&=m(b-c)(a+b+c)-b(a+b+c)(a+b-c)\\
&=(a+b+c)(mb-mc-ab-b^2+bc).
\end{aligned}\]Using $(2m-a)t=m(a+b+c)$ again we get
\[(c^2-b^2)m=(2m-a)(mb-mc-ab-b^2+bc),\]which is the following quadratic in $m$:
\[2(b-c)m^2-m(c^2+b^2-2bc+3ab-ac)+ab(a+b-c)=0.\]Since $0<m<a$ so we conclude that $m=\tfrac{a+b-c}{2},$ as desired.

It's easy to see that $\angle PIQ=90^\circ+\tfrac{1}{2}\angle A$ and $\angle QAP=90^\circ-\tfrac{1}{2}\angle A,$ so $A,I,P,Q$ are concyclic. Notice that $DI$ is median and $AI$ is isogonal to $DI$ with respect to $\angle PIQ,$ it follows that $A,P,I,Q$ is harmonic quadrilateral. Therefore $QI\cdot PD=QI\cdot AP=PI\cdot QA=PI\cdot QD.$
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I've been thinking over this for a bit now...does anyone have a solution without projective (still haven't learned it :() and without bary, complex :P

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Let $P',Q'$ be the intersections of $DQ$ with $PB$ and $DP$ with $QC$ .$\angle P'DA =\frac{1}{2}\angle C,\angle ADQ' =\frac{1}{2}\angle B$ thus $Q'IP'D$ is cyclic .
we have $PP'.QD.\sin PP'D=QQ'.PD.\sin QQ'D$ then $(PI+IP').QD.\sin PP'D=(QI+IQ').PD.\sin QQ'D$ since $PID$ and $QID$ have the same area and $ \angle PP'D$ and $ \angle QQ'D$ are supplementary then $PI.QD=QI.PD$ .
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As in the solution by PROF65, let $P',Q'$ be the intersections of $DQ$ with $PB$ and $DP$ with $QC$, then $Q'IP'D$ is cyclic.


Since $\triangle PID$ and $\triangle QID$ have the same area, $DI$ will pass through the midpoint $M$ of $PQ$, then by Ceva's theorem we have $\frac{DP'}{P'Q}\cdot \frac{QM}{PM}\cdot \frac{PQ'}{Q'D}=1$ so $\frac{DP'}{P'Q}= \frac{PQ'}{Q'D}$ so $PQ\parallel P'Q'$.

Angle chasing yields
$\angle P'DI=\angle P'Q'I=\angle IQP$ and $\angle Q'DI=\angle Q'P'I=\angle IPQ$.
Therefore, $$\frac{PI}{QI}=\frac{\sin \angle IQP }{\sin \angle IPQ}=\frac{\sin \angle P'DI(=\angle QDI) }{\sin \angle Q'DI(=\angle PDI)}=\frac{PD}{QD}$$since $DI$ is the $D$-median of $\triangle DPQ$. And so we are done.
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We first understand two unusual conditions in the problem.
$S_{\triangle PID} = S_{\triangle QID}$ means that $I$ is on the median of $\triangle DPQ$.
$PI \cdot QD=QI \cdot PD$ means that $I$ should (not yet proved) lie on the Apollonian circle of $\triangle DPQ$.
Combine the two observations, $I$ should be the $HM$-point of $\triangle DPQ$, which is what we are going to prove.
Notice that $A$ and $D$ are reflections across the line $PQ$, from $AP = DP$ and $AQ = DQ$.
Lastly, $A$, $P$, $I$, $Q$ are concyclic by angle chasing, $\angle API + \angle AQI = \angle ADB + \angle ADC = \pi$.
Hence, $I$ lies on the reflection of circumcircle $(DPQ)$ across $PQ$, which implies that $I$ is the $HM$-point of $\triangle DPQ$ as desired.

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