Let be an acute triangle with , let be its centroid and the foot of the altitude from . The line meets the small arc of the circumcircle of triangle at point . Prove that the line is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle .
Solution
Let be the point in which the parallel through to intersects again the circumcircle of triangle . We prove that the points , and are collinear. is a cyclic trapezoid, hence a cyclic one. If is the orthogonal projection of point onto , then is a rectangle. It is easy to prove that triangles and are equal; it follows that , i.e. is the midpoint of the line segment . It follows that and, since , triangles and are similar. We deduce that , i.e. points , , are collinear.
Then , which shows that the line is tangent to the circumcircle of triangle .

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