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Saudi Arabia geometry

Problem

Consider a circle of center and a chord of it (not a diameter). Take a point on the ray . The perpendicular at onto meets the chord at and the circle at and . Denote by the orthogonal projection of onto the chord . Prove that .

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Solution


Denote the diameter corresponding to point and consider the angle . Writing the power of with respect to the circle, we get where is the radius of the circle.

We have if and only if that is equivalent to It follows that the desired relation is equivalent to that is , hence .

On the other hand, it is clear that Multiplying these relations we get and we are done.

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