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Baltic Way geometry

Problem

Let be a trapezoid with and , and let be a line not intersecting the linesegments or . Assume that intersects the lines and in the points and respectively. Show that the three circles and intersect in a common point, where denotes the circumcircle of .

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Solution


Note first that is concyclic since it is an isosceles trapezoid. We define to be the intersection of and , and it now suffices to prove that and are cyclic quadrilaterals. We have that and hence is a cyclic quadrilateral. Now observe that so is concyclic, and it now follows that: Hence, is a cyclic quadrilateral.

Techniques

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