In the scalene triangle ABC, the in-circle touches side BC at the point D. The angle bisectors of and meet the circumcircle of the triangle at the points and , respectively. Let and be diameters in the circumcircles of triangles and , respectively. Prove that the triangles and are similar.
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Solution 1
Let and be the midpoint of the arc and the intersection of the lines , respectively. Now, since , therefore is cyclic, so . Thus, is cyclic and is a rectangle, so and . Similarly . By easy angle chasing, we get which completes the proof.
Solution 2
Suppose the feet of the perpendiculars from the vertex to the lines , and are respectively .
The quadrilaterals and are cyclic, and is a diagonal of both. Thus we have:
Now, since the quadrilaterals are cyclic (respectively with circles of diameter ), we also have:
Moreover, since and lie on the angle bisector of , and and lie on the angle bisector of , therefore:
So we conclude:
It suffices to prove the following; If are the points where the incircle touches the sides respectively, then by Iran's lemma, we know that are collinear. Also, we know that and both lie on the angle bisector of , and and on that of . Therefore:
it can now be concluded that the quadrilateral is an isosceles trapezoid. ■