2021 AIME II Problem 14
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14.
Let be an acute triangle with circumcenter and centroid Let be the intersection of the line tangent to the circumcircle of at and the line perpendicular to at Let be the intersection of lines and Given that the measures of and are in the ratio the degree measure of can be written as where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Solution:
Let be the midpoint of so are collinear along the median, while are collinear by definition. Since (tangent and radius) and quadrilateral is cyclic with diameter Since and (the segment from the center to the midpoint of a chord is perpendicular to it), quadrilateral is cyclic with diameter
In each circle the chord subtends equal angles, so and Triangles and therefore have the same angle sums at their bases, giving
Write and so Central angles give and bisects so on the side of (nearer to 's arc since ), Setting gives so degrees, and all three angles are acute as required. Then
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