tangent quadrilateral
Source: Russian Olympiad 2004, problem 9.2
May 3, 2004
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Problem Statement
Let be a circumscribed quadrilateral (i. e. a quadrilateral which has an incircle). The exterior angle bisectors of the angles and intersect each other at ; the exterior angle bisectors of the angles and intersect each other at ; the exterior angle bisectors of the angles and intersect each other at ; the exterior angle bisectors of the angles and intersect each other at . Let , , and be the orthocenters of the triangles , , and , respectively. Show that the quadrilateral is a parallelogram.