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Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament #0j64

Harvard-MIT Mathematics TournamentHard

From module Angle Chasing Mastery

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Understand the scale
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.
TangentsSpiral similarityAngle chasingTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circle

Problem

Problem:

Let ω1\omega_{1} and ω2\omega_{2} be two circles that intersect at points AA and BB. Let line ll be tangent to ω1\omega_{1} at PP and to ω2\omega_{2} at QQ so that AA is closer to PQPQ than BB. Let points RR and SS lie along rays PAPA and QAQA, respectively, so that PQ=AR=ASPQ = AR = AS and RR and SS are on opposite sides of AA as PP and QQ. Let OO be the circumcenter of triangle ASRASR, and let CC and DD be the midpoints of major arcs APAP and AQAQ, respectively. If ∠APQ\angle APQ is 4545 degrees and ∠AQP\angle AQP is 3030 degrees, determine ∠COD\angle COD in degrees.

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