In the triangle , is a midpoint of the altitude and is a centre of the circumscribed circle. A line perpendicular to the line passing through intersects and at and respectively. Prove that the midpoints of , and are collinear.
Solution
Define and as midpoints of and respectively. Then lies on the line due to its initial position. Note that projections of on the lines , and are points , and which lie on the Simson line (Fig 33). From this can be concluded that lies on the circumscribed circle of the .
Intersect a ray with the line in a point . Observe that as they have the same angles. Also, , so and are respective vertices of the similar triangles. Since , we have that . Hence, points and are symmetric over .
Name midpoints of and as and respectively. Define as a symmetric point of over . Therefore, can deduce that
which means that . Let be a midpoint of the . From , we have that the midpoints of the and coincide, so is also the midpoint of the . From the previously described similarity we get that (an angle between a median and a side) and (midline). Similarly,
. From the angle sum we conclude that and