In an acute triangle with let be an altitude, and let be the circumcenter. A line through parallel to meets at . Prove that and the midpoints of and are collinear.
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In an acute triangle with let be an altitude, and let be the circumcenter. A line through parallel to meets at . Prove that and the midpoints of and are collinear.
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Let be the midpoint of the side . Then and parallel to comes to . But . In the triangle we have and . It follows that the quadrilateral is cyclic, hence , which leads to the conclusion.
Second solution. Let the projection of onto the parallel through to the line . The quadrilateral is cyclic, hence . It follows that points and are collinear. Finally, the triangle is isosceles, with , therefore lies on the perpendicular bisector of the line segment , i.e. is on the midline of triangle that is parallel to . We have (from the cyclic quadrilateral ). The conclusion follows readily.
Third solution. (Given by Alexandru Mihalcu.) Let be the midpoint of the line segment and be the intersection point of lines and . As is parallel to , we have . From the converse of the Angle Bisector Theorem it follows that is the angle bisector of . Then , and the conclusion follows.