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Geometry Difficulty 5.4 AIME, harder Prove it North Macedonia

In a circle with diameter dd the chords ABAB and CDCD are perpendicular and intersect at a point EE distinct from the centre of the circle. Prove that AE2+BE2+CE2+DE2=d2\overline{AE}^2 + \overline{BE}^2 + \overline{CE}^2 + \overline{DE}^2 = d^2.

Solution

ABAB intersects the circumference in a point MM. The line, which passes through MM and is parallel to CDCD, intersects the circumference in a point NN. Because MDC=90\angle MDC = 90^\circ, the segment MCMC passes through the centre of the circle, which means that MNC=90\angle MNC = 90^\circ, we conclude that the quadrangle MDCNMDCN is a rectangle. The points PP and EE, AA and BB are symmetric with axis of symmetry same as for the rectangle MDCNMDCN which passes through OO and is parallel to DCDC and MNMN. It follows that AP=EB\overline{AP} = \overline{EB}. From CD=CE+ED\overline{CD} = \overline{CE} + \overline{ED}, MD=PE=AEAP=AEEB\overline{MD} = \overline{PE} = \overline{AE} - \overline{AP} = \overline{AE} - \overline{EB} and because MDC\angle MDC is a right-angled triangle we obtain that

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d2=MD2+CD2=(AEEB)2+(CE+ED)2==AE2+EB22AEEB+CE2+ED2+2CEED(1). d^2 = \overline{MD}^2 + \overline{CD}^2 = (\overline{AE} - \overline{EB})^2 + (\overline{CE} + \overline{ED})^2 = \\ = \overline{AE}^2 + \overline{EB}^2 - 2 \cdot \overline{AE} \cdot \overline{EB} + \overline{CE}^2 + \overline{ED}^2 + 2 \cdot \overline{CE} \cdot \overline{ED} \quad \dots\dots(1).

BAC=BDC\angle BAC = \angle BDC because they are angles over the same arc BCBC. From the similarity of the triangles ΔAECΔBED\Delta AEC \sim \Delta BED we obtain AE:CE=ED:BE\overline{AE} : \overline{CE} = \overline{ED} : \overline{BE} or AEEB=CEED(2)\overline{AE} \cdot \overline{EB} = \overline{CE} \cdot \overline{ED} \dots(2). If we substitute (2) in (1) we get

AE2+BE2+CE2+DE2=d2. \overline{AE}^2 + \overline{BE}^2 + \overline{CE}^2 + \overline{DE}^2 = d^2.

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