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Belarusian Mathematical Olympiad

Belarus geometry

Problem

Let be a cyclic quadrilateral with the circumcircle . The points and are symmetric to with respect to the midpoints of and . The circumcircle of the triangle intersects at and . Prove that is the diameter of . (A. Voidelevich)

problem
Solution
Since is symmetric to with respect to the midpoint of , is a parallelogram, so and . Likewise is a parallelogram, and . Therefore the triangle is obtained from the triangle by the transfer along the line by the length of the segment . Let be the center of and be the circumcenter of the triangle . Then . Since the line connecting the centers of two intersecting circles is perpendicular to their common chord, which means . Therefore , i. e. is a diameter of .



Second solution:

Let , and be the midpoints of the sides , and respectively. Since the triangle is obtained from the triangle by a homothety with the center and the coefficient , its circumcircle is obtained from in the same way: . The center of the homothety lies on , so it lies on as well. Since the triangle is obtained from the triangle by a homothety with the center and the coefficient , its circumcircle is obtained from in the same way: . Consider the intersection points of and , namely, how they are obtained under the composition , translating into . One of them, the point is obtained from the point , indeed: . The second point is obtained from the point , lying on diametrically opposite to since and . Whence , so is a diameter.

the inverse transformation: from , it follows that Now, the intersection points of and are obviously the middle of the segment and the center of the circle . It remains to make the transformation and get the desired points and .

Techniques

HomothetyTranslationCyclic quadrilateralsAngle chasing