two lines concurrent with a circumcircle

Art of Problem Solving

AoPS Online

High School Olympiads Regional, national, and international math olympiads

Regional, national, and international math olympiads

3 M G

BBookmark VNew Topic kLocked

High School Olympiads Regional, national, and international math olympiads

Regional, national, and international math olympiads

3 M G

BBookmark VNew Topic kLocked

No tags match your search

M

two lines concurrent with a circumcircle

G H J

Reveal topic tags

cyclic quadrilateral

L

G H BBookmark kLocked kLocked NReply

Source: 2019 Oral Moscow Geometry Olympiad grades 10-11 p5

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

30651 posts

#1 h May 22, 2019, 7:48 AM • 2 Y

Y by Adventure10, Mango247

On sides $AB$ and $BC$ of a non-isosceles triangle $ABC$ are selected points $C_1$ and $A_1$ such that the quadrilateral $AC_1A_1C$ is cyclic. Lines $CC_1$ and $AA_1$ intersect at point $P$ . Line $BP$ intersects the circumscribed circle of triangle $ABC$ at the point $Q$ . Prove that the lines $QC_1$ and $CM$ , where $M$ is the midpoint of $A_1C_1$ , intersect at the circumscribed circles of triangle $ABC$ .

This post has been edited 2 times. Last edited by parmenides51, Jul 29, 2019, 2:52 PM
Reason: source

Z K Y

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

924 posts

#2 h Dec 26, 2019, 12:41 PM • 8 Y

Y by amar_04, Pakistan, buratinogigle, thczarif, mueller.25, Kimchiks926, Pluto04, Adventure10

This was a really nice problem . Here is a solution that I and amar_04 found.
$[asy] /* Geogebra to Asymptote conversion, documentation at artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki go to User:Azjps/geogebra */ import graph; size(10cm); real labelscalefactor = 0.5; /* changes label-to-point distance */ pen dps = linewidth(0.7) + fontsize(10); defaultpen(dps); /* default pen style */ pen dotstyle = black; /* point style */ real xmin = -1.52, xmax = 29.28, ymin = -15.3, ymax = 5.04; /* image dimensions */ pen dtsfsf = rgb(0.8274509803921568,0.1843137254901961,0.1843137254901961); /* draw figures */ draw((8.44,2.98)--(5.58,-6.24), linewidth(0.8) + dtsfsf); draw((5.58,-6.24)--(19.12,-6.08), linewidth(0.8) + dtsfsf); draw((19.12,-6.08)--(8.44,2.98), linewidth(0.8) + dtsfsf); draw(circle((12.359919441201725,-6.99943271169598), 6.822319669495047), linewidth(1.4)); draw((6.340428295488688,-3.788549341116885)--(19.12,-6.08), linewidth(0.8)); draw((5.58,-6.24)--(12.164915848398643,-0.17990052307974658), linewidth(0.8)); draw(circle((12.315918707971942,-3.275870662125787), 7.35925699864144), linewidth(1.4)); draw((8.44,2.98)--(7.585828269060439,-8.913681231111852), linewidth(0.8)); draw((6.340428295488688,-3.788549341116885)--(12.164915848398643,-0.17990052307974658), linewidth(0.8)); draw((5.5260993251428205,-0.4373822755701926)--(19.12,-6.08), linewidth(0.8)); draw((5.5260993251428205,-0.4373822755701926)--(7.585828269060439,-8.913681231111852), linewidth(0.8)); draw((2.3215520114998403,-6.278504555255542)--(6.340428295488688,-3.788549341116885), linewidth(0.8)); draw((2.3215520114998403,-6.278504555255542)--(5.58,-6.24), linewidth(0.8) + dtsfsf); draw((8.44,2.98)--(9.252672071943666,-1.9842249320983159), linewidth(0.8)); draw((9.252672071943666,-1.9842249320983159)--(10.637108098235617,-10.441082348369939), linewidth(0.8)); draw((2.3215520114998403,-6.278504555255542)--(10.637108098235617,-10.441082348369939), linewidth(0.8)); draw(circle((11.30461833939784,-5.296139196043708), 5.1880641825949905), linewidth(0.8) + linetype("4 4")); draw(circle((13.524465434065673,-5.626656640637814), 5.613869189787343), linewidth(0.8) + linetype("4 4")); /* dots and labels */ dot((8.44,2.98),dotstyle); label("B", (8.52,3.18), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((5.58,-6.24),dotstyle); label("A", (5.22,-6.58), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((19.12,-6.08),dotstyle); label("$C$", (19.26,-6.2), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((12.164915848398643,-0.17990052307974658),dotstyle); label("$A_1$", (12.16,0.08), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((6.340428295488688,-3.788549341116885),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$C_1$", (5.82,-3.66), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((7.933388312510872,-4.074176227915555),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$P$", (7.44,-4.3), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((7.585828269060439,-8.913681231111852),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$Q$", (7.66,-8.76), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((5.5260993251428205,-0.4373822755701926),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$T$", (5.7,-0.46), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((9.252672071943666,-1.9842249320983159),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$M$", (9.36,-2.38), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((2.3215520114998403,-6.278504555255542),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$D$", (2.28,-6.12), NE * labelscalefactor); dot((10.637108098235617,-10.441082348369939),linewidth(4pt) + dotstyle); label("$E$", (10.72,-10.28), NE * labelscalefactor); clip((xmin,ymin)--(xmin,ymax)--(xmax,ymax)--(xmax,ymin)--cycle); /* end of picture */ [/asy]$
Solution(with amar_04): Firstly we'll give a defination of a few points. Let $A_1C_1 \cap AC=D$ . And let $BM \cap \odot(ABC)=E$ and $QC_1\cap \odot(ABC)=T$ . We'll continue with a phantom points based approach i.e. assume $TC \cap A_1C_1=M$ . Then we'll prove that $M$ is infact the midpoint of $A_1C_1$ .

Firstly note that to prove $BM$ is the median in $\Delta BC_1A_1$ we need to prove that its the $B$ -symmedian of $\Delta BAC$ since they are oppositely similiar so the median and the symmedian get swapped. So we can restate the problem as follows.

Restated problem wrote:

In a triangle $\Delta ABC$ Let $C_1$ be any random point on $AB$ . Let $\odot(AC_1C) \cap BC=A_1$ . Now let $A_1A \cap CC_1=P$ and let $BP \cap \odot(ABC)=Q$ .Let $QC_1 \cap \odot(ABC)=T$ and finally let $TC \cap A_1C_1=M$ . Then prove that $BM$ is the $B$ -symmedian in $\Delta ABC$ .

By well known property of symmedians we need to prove $(B,E;A,C)=-1$ . Taking perpsectivity at $Q$ we have $(B,E;A,C) \overset{Q}{=} (BQ \cap AC,QE \cap AC;A,C)$ . Now note that we already have $(D,QB \cap AC;A,C)=-1$ . So we just need to prove $D-Q-E$ collinear. Note that by radical axis theorem we are left to prove $A_1C_1QE$ cyclic. Now we have that since $\angle CEM\equiv \angle CEB =\angle CAB \equiv \angle CAC_1=180^\circ - \angle CA_1C\equiv 180^\circ-\angle CA_1M \implies CA_1ME$ cyclic. Now note that $\angle C_1QE \equiv \angle TQE=180^\circ -\angle TCE=180^\circ-\angle MCE=180^\circ-\angle MA_1E \equiv 180^\circ-\angle C_1A_1E \implies C_1A_1QE$ cyclic as desired. $\blacksquare$

This post has been edited 9 times. Last edited by GeoMetrix, Dec 26, 2019, 12:49 PM

Z K Y

The post below has been deleted. Click to close.

This post has been deleted. Click here to see post.

Mahdi_Mashayekhi

695 posts

Mahdi_Mashayekhi

#3 h Apr 25, 2022, 4:30 PM

Y by

Let $QC_1$ meet circumscribed circle at $T$ and Let $CT$ meet $A_1C_1$ at $M$ . Let $BM$ meet circumscribed circle at $S$ . Note that $BA_1C_1$ and $BCA$ are similar so we need to prove $BM$ is symmedian in $BAC$ . Note that $AC_1A_1C$ is cyclic so we need to prove $C_1QSA_1$ is cyclic.
Note that $\angle CA_1M = \angle CA_1C_1 = \angle 180 - \angle CAB = \angle 180 - \angle CSB = \angle 180 - \angle CSM \implies CSMA_1$ is cyclic so $\angle SA_1C_1 = \angle SA_1M = \angle SCM = \angle SCT = \angle 180 - \angle SQT = \angle 180 - \angle SQC_1 \implies SQC_1A_1$ is cyclic.
we're Done.

Z K Y

N Quick Reply

G

H

=

© 2025 AoPS Incorporated

a