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Austria 2011 geometry

Problem

Let be an isosceles triangle with and be a point of the circumcircle lying on the arc not containing . Let and be the orthogonal projections of the point onto the lines and , respectively. Prove that and have the same length. W. Janous, Innsbruck

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Solution
The inscribed angle theorem implies . Abbildung 1: Problem 4. Therefore, the right triangles and have the same angles. Since their hypotenuses have the same length , they are congruent and we conclude .

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