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Mathematica competitions in Croatia

Croatia geometry

Problem

Let and be two parallel lines. Circle touches the line at and intersects at two different points, and . Let be some point on . Segments and intersect the shorter arc at and respectively. Points and are both different from and . Prove that the line passes through the midpoint of the segment .

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Solution
Let be the intersection of the lines and . Denote . Line is a transversal of the parallel lines and , which implies that . The quadrilateral is cyclic, hence , implying . Triangles and are similar because they share an angle at and . This implies Since the power of the point with respect to the circle is , we can conclude that , i.e. the point is the midpoint of .

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