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Ukraine geometry
Problem
Let be a point of the intersection of diagonals of the cyclic quadrilateral . The circumscribed circles of and intersect the line at points and correspondingly. and are projections of the point onto the lines and . Prove that .
Solution
Denote by the distance from the point to the line . From the equality of inscribed angles it follows that (fig. 6) Furthermore, so is the intersection of bisectors of angles and , so , so . Then as right triangles with equal cathetus and hypotenuse. From the equality it follows that , so . Similarly, . This means that is an isosceles trapezoid, so , as desired.
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