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Baltic Way 2019 geometry
Problem
is hypotenuse of right triangle , is its altitude. Points and are the midpoints of segments and correspondingly. Lines and intersect for second time the circumscribed circle of triangle in points and correspondingly. Segments and intersect in point . Prove that line passes through the midpoint of segment .
Solution
Let be the midpoint of segment , be the intersection point of and , be the intersection point of and . Then and is one third of the corresponding medians and is parallel to .
The triangles and are similar. From this similarity and properties of inscribed angles we have Hence . But also as inscribed angles. Therefore quadrilateral is cyclic and . So, is parallel to . By analogous reasoning is parallel to . Hence is parallelogram.
Diagonal of this parallelogram splits diagonal on 2 equal parts, therefore it also splits the segment which is parallel to on 2 equal parts, QED.
The triangles and are similar. From this similarity and properties of inscribed angles we have Hence . But also as inscribed angles. Therefore quadrilateral is cyclic and . So, is parallel to . By analogous reasoning is parallel to . Hence is parallelogram.
Diagonal of this parallelogram splits diagonal on 2 equal parts, therefore it also splits the segment which is parallel to on 2 equal parts, QED.
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