Let be a convex quadrilateral. Choose points and on the segment and a point on the segment , such that the quadrilaterals , and are cyclic. Prove that if and only if the segments and are parallel.
Solution
Let . Since the quadrilateral is cyclic, we have
Since is also a cyclic quadrilateral, we have . From here we conclude that the lines and are parallel.
In the cyclic quadrilateral we have and in the cyclic quadrilateral we have . Since we get , so the lines and are parallel.
Let be a point on the line and let be a point on the line , such that and . Obviously, the points , and are collinear. The quadrilateral is a parallelogram, so . The quadrilateral is also a parallelogram, so .

If , we have . Since the point clearly does not lie between and , we conclude that . This is only possible when . In this case, the line is parallel to the line , which means that the segments and are parallel.
Conversely, if and are parallel, then the quadrilaterals and are parallelograms, since they have two pairs of parallel sides each. So, .