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exinscribed circle and its tangency pts

Source: Russian olympiad 2003/problem 10.7; IMAR test, october 2003

June 12, 2004
geometrycircumcircleincentertrigonometrygeometric transformationreflectionparallelogram

Problem Statement

The exinscribed circle of a triangle ABCABC corresponding to its vertex AA touches the sidelines ABAB and ACAC in the points MM and PP, respectively, and touches its side BCBC in the point NN. Show that if the midpoint of the segment MPMP lies on the circumcircle of triangle ABCABC, then the points OO, NN, II are collinear, where II is the incenter and OO is the circumcenter of triangle ABCABC.