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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.
InversionHomothetyIsogonal/isotomic conjugates, barycentric coordinatesTangentsAngle chasingTriangle centers: centroid, incenter, circumcenter, orthocenter, Euler line, nine-point circleConstructions and loci

Problem

Let P1P2⋯P100P_1P_2 \cdots P_{100} be a cyclic 100-gon, and let Pi=Pi+100P_i = P_{i+100} for all ii. Define QiQ_i as the intersection of diagonals Pi−2Pi+1‾\overline{P_{i-2}P_{i+1}} and Pi−1Pi+2‾\overline{P_{i-1}P_{i+2}} for all integers ii. Suppose there exists a point PP satisfying PPi‾⊥Pi−1Pi+1‾\overline{PP_i} \perp \overline{P_{i-1}P_{i+1}} for all integers ii. Prove that the points Q1,Q2,…,Q100Q_1, Q_2, \dots, Q_{100} are concyclic.

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