2021 IMO Problems/Problem 4
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Let be a circle with centre , and a convex quadrilateral such that each of the segments and is tangent to . Let be the circumcircle of the triangle . The extension of beyond meets at , and the extension of beyond meets at . The extensions of and beyond meet at and , respectively. Prove that
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Solution 1
Let be the centre of .
For the result follows simply. By Pitot's Theorem we have so that, The configuration becomes symmetric about and the result follows immediately.
Now assume WLOG . Then lies between and in the minor arc and lies between and in the minor arc . Consider the cyclic quadrilateral . We have and . So that, Since is the incenter of quadrilateral , is the angular bisector of . This gives us, Hence the chords and are equal. So is the reflection of about . Hence, and now it suffices to prove Let and be the tangency points of with and respectively. Then by tangents we have, . So . Similarly we get, . So it suffices to prove, Consider the tangent to with . Since and are reflections about and is a circle centred at the tangents and are reflections of each other. Hence By a similar argument on the reflection of and we get and finally, as required.
~BUMSTAKA
Solution 2
Denote tangents to the circle at , tangents to the same circle at ; tangents at and tangents at . We can get that .Since Same reason, we can get that We can find that . Connect separately, we can create two pairs of congruent triangles. In , since After getting that , we can find that . Getting that , same reason, we can get that . Now the only thing left is that we have to prove . Since we can subtract and get that ,means and we are done ~bluesoul
Solution 3 (Visual)
We use the equality of the tangent segments and symmetry.
Using Claim 1 we get symmetric to with respect
Therefore
Let and be the tangency points of with and respectively.
Using Claim 2 we get
Claim 1
Let be the center of Then point is symmetric to with respect point is symmetric to with respect
Proof
Let
We find measure of some arcs: symmetry and symmetry and
Claim 2
Let circles centered at and centered at be given. Let points and lies on and be symmetric to with respect Let and be tangents to . Then
Proof
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