Fishing for Some Angles

Geometry Level 5

Let A B C ABC be a triangle with circumcircle ω \omega . Let the bisector of A B C \angle ABC meet segment A C AC at D D and circle ω \omega at M B M \neq B . The circumcircle of B D C \triangle BDC meets line A B AB at E B E \neq B , and C E CE meets ω \omega at P C P \neq C . The bisector of P M C \angle PMC meets segment A C AC at Q C . Q \neq C. Given that P Q = M C , PQ = MC, determine the degree measure of A B C . \angle ABC.

Proposed by Ray Li \textit{Proposed by Ray Li}


The answer is 80.

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1 solution

Alan Yan
Nov 4, 2015

Let A B M = M B C = a \angle ABM = \angle MBC = a and C M Q = Q M P = b \angle CMQ = \angle QMP = b . Because quadrilateral B E D C BEDC is cyclic, we have that A C P = a \angle ACP = a and A B M = M P C = A C M = a \angle ABM = \angle MPC = \angle ACM = a because they substend the same arc or arc with the same degree.

Now notice that Q Q is the incenter of P M C \triangle PMC because it is the intersection of two angle bisectors. This implies that M P C = Q P C = a 2 \angle MPC = \angle QPC = \frac{a}{2} .

A C P = A M P = a \angle ACP = \angle AMP = a since they substend the same arc. However this implies that A M P = M P C = a A M P C \angle AMP = \angle MPC = a \implies AM || PC which implies that quadrilateral A M C P AMCP is an isosceles trapezoid.

This implies that M C = A P MC = AP and since P Q = M C PQ = MC , we have P Q = A P PQ = AP which implies A P Q \triangle APQ is isosceles. This gives us A Q P = P A Q \angle AQP = \angle PAQ and since P A C = P M C = 2 b \angle PAC = \angle PMC = 2b because they substend the same arc, we have that A Q P = P A Q = 2 b \angle AQP = \angle PAQ = 2b .

Call the intersection of the diagonals of A M C P AMCP , T T . Since M A C = M P C = a \angle MAC = \angle MPC = a and A M P = A C P = a \angle AMP = \angle ACP = a , we have that M T C = 2 a \angle MTC = 2a by exterior angle theorem which further implies that P T Q = 18 0 2 a \angle PTQ = 180^{\circ} - 2a . Now, equating the sum of the angles of P T Q \triangle PTQ and T M C \triangle TMC to 18 0 180^{\circ} we get the following two equations: 18 0 2 a + 2 b + a 2 = 18 0 2 b + a + 2 a = 18 0 \begin{aligned} 180^{\circ} - 2a + 2b + \frac{a}{2} & = 180^{\circ} \\ 2b + a + 2a & = 180^{\circ} \end{aligned} which can be solved easily to get a = 4 0 a = 40^{\circ} which implies that A B C = 8 0 \angle ABC = 80^{\circ} .

Nice and easy solution.

Is the problem not less rated? I think it should be of 395 points.

Priyanshu Mishra - 5 years, 6 months ago

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