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Berkeley Math Circle #0k8m

Berkeley Math CircleHard

From module Angle Chasing Mastery

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Scale 0.5: Easiest math competition problems, often solvable even for early middle school students without experience. 1: Problems strictly for beginners, often at a moderate middle school level. 1.5: Problems for stronger beginner students, on the level of the middling problems in most middle school contests. 2: For motivated beginners, harder questions from the previous categories. 2.5: More advanced beginner problems, hardest questions from previous categories. 3: Early intermediate problems that require more creative thinking. 3.5: Tougher early intermediate problems that consistently stretch into higher-level creative thinking or conceptual knowledge. 4: Intermediate-level problems. 4.5: Upper intermediate problems approaching the upper bound for non-invitational sprint math competitions. 5: More difficult AIME problems or simple proof-based Olympiad-style problems. 6: High-level AIME-styled questions or introductory Olympiad-level questions. 7: Tougher Olympiad-level questions, may require more technical knowledge. 8: High-level Olympiad-level questions. 9: Expert Olympiad-level questions. 9.5: The hardest problems appearing on Olympiads which the strongest students could reasonably solve. 10: Historically notorious problems, generally unsuitable for even very hard competitions because they are exceedingly tedious, long, and difficult.
Triangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleCyclic quadrilateralsInscribed/circumscribed quadrilateralsAngle chasing

Problem

Problem:

Let ABCABC be a triangle and PP a point inside it. Lines APAP, BPBP, CPCP meet the opposite sides at DD, EE, FF. Assume that the three quadrilaterals PDCEPDCE, PEAFPEAF, PFBDPFBD are all bicentric. Prove that triangle ABCABC is equilateral.

(A quadrilateral is bicentric if it can be inscribed inside a circle, and it also can have a circle inscribed inside it.)

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