Maths Olympiad Prep

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Problem 807

AIME late
Geometry Difficulty 5.4 Prove it

Prove: The circumcenter OO, centroid GG, and orthocenter HH of △ABC\triangle ABC are collinear, and OG:GH=O G: G H= 1:21: 2.

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Official solution

14. OH→=OA→+OB→+OC→\overrightarrow{O H}=\overrightarrow{O A}+\overrightarrow{O B}+\overrightarrow{O C}, and OG→=13(OA→+OB→+OC→)=13OH→=13(OG→+GH→)\overrightarrow{O G}=\frac{1}{3}(\overrightarrow{O A}+\overrightarrow{O B}+\overrightarrow{O C})=\frac{1}{3} \overrightarrow{O H}=\frac{1}{3}(\overrightarrow{O G}+\overrightarrow{G H}), thus OG→=12GH→\overrightarrow{O G}=\frac{1}{2} \overrightarrow{G H}. Therefore, OO, GG, HH are collinear, and ∣OG∣:∣GH∣=1:2|O G|:|G H|=1: 2.

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