Let and be the points on the sides and of a convex quadrilateral , such that is parallel to . The segment intersects the diagonal at , while the segment intersects the diagonal at . Prove: if is a parallelogram, then is a parallelogram as well.
Solution
Denote the intersection of the lines and by and the intersection of the lines and by .
Now, is parallel to and is parallel to , so the quadrilateral is a parallelogram. Furthermore, and are parallel, so is also a parallelogram. Hence, , and , which means that the triangles and are congruent. Thus, .
Since is parallel to , there are three pairs of similar triangles: and , and , and . Hence, and . We see that and together with this implies .

Let be the midpoint of the segment . Since is a parallelogram, is also the midpoint of the segment . The equality implies that is the midpoint of as well. The segments and bisect one another, so is a parallelogram.
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