In the acute-angled triangle () the altitudes are , and . The extension of intersects line at . The extension of intersects at . If and is perpendicular to , compute .
Solution
Since , we compute the ratio . Note that implies that is between and . Denote and observe that . Indeed we have from the cyclic quadrilaterals and . On the other hand each of the four angles in the above equality completes or to . In particular means that is the internal bisector of . Since , it follows that is the external bisector of . Hence by the external angle theorem.
To find consider the midpoint of . The right triangles and are similar as they share an acute angle at vertex . Since and are respective medians, . We proved above that , hence . Therefore triangle is isosceles with base . Its altitude is also a median, so . In addition , and we obtain . In conclusion .

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