Let be the midpoint of the segment and be an interior point of the segment , . The isosceles triangles () and () lie in the same halfplane with respect to and are such that the points and are concyclic. Prove that either or .
Solution
We may assume that . Denote by the circumcircle of and by and the midpoints of and , respectively. Then , i.e. is a trapezoid. If is the midpoint of then
Therefore is the midpoint of .
Let be the segment whose ends are the midpoints of and . Then , and is a diameter of , since is the midpoint of the chord and .
If , then is the midpoint of the chord . Hence we have two possibilities:
1) – then ;
2) is a diameter of . Then and . But and , which implies that , i.e. .
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