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Problems from Ukrainian Authors

Ukraine geometry

Problem

Let be a quadrilateral with equal angles and . Circles are symmetric with respect to ; passes through and intersects and for the second time at and , respectively, and passes through and intersects and for the second time at and , respectively. Prove that and intersect on .
Solution
Let be symmetric to with respect to . If coincides with , then and are symmetric to and , respectively, with respect to , and the problem clearly holds. Let . Since is symmetric to with respect to , If we denote by and the points symmetric to and , respectively, with respect to we will have that all lie on (fig. 24). Since , points are concyclic. We get , so , and similarly . Then is a cyclic trapezoid, so it's isosceles, and . We also get , so . Since segments and are equal, is a parallelogram, so intersects at its midpoint, and since and is symmetric to with respect to , the midpoint of lies on , as desired.

Techniques

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