Let be an acute-angled triangle with circumcircle . A circle is internally tangent to at and also tangent to at . Let and intersect at and respectively. Let and be points on line such that is the midpoint of and is the midpoint of . Lines and meet at and intersect again at and respectively. The ray meets the circumcircle of triangle at . Prove that .
Solution
Let and intersect at and respectively. By applying Menelaus' theorem to triangle and line , we have
and similarly . A homothety at takes and to the midpoint of arc not containing , so and bisects . Thus
which implies , and lies on . Then we obtain
where the last equality follows from . This shows is cyclic and hence
which shows . As is the midpoint of , is the midpoint of .
Now observe that and so triangle and are similar. Therefore we have
and also have
Combining the two results gives triangles and are similar, which shows is the centre of spiral similarity taking . Hence also triangles and are similar which shows . This gives
which is symmetric in giving the result.

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