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Geometry Difficulty 6.5 National olympiad Prove it Greece

Let ABCDABCD be a convex quadrilateral inscribed in a circle (O,R)(O, R). With centers the vertices of the quadrilateral and radius RR we draw circles CA(A,R)C_A(A, R), CB(B,R)C_B(B, R), CC(C,R)C_C(C, R), CD(D,R)C_D(D, R). Circles CAC_A and CBC_B meet at KK, circles CBC_B and CCC_C meet at LL, circles CCC_C and CDC_D meet at MM and the circles CDC_D, CAC_A meet at NN. (Points K,L,M,NK,L,M,N are the second common points of the corresponding circles, given that all of them pass through point OO). Prove that the quadrilateral KLMNKLMN is parallelogram.

Solutions — 2

Solution 1

The line segment ABAB connects the centers of the circles CAC_A and CBC_B, and therefore it is the perpendicular bisector of the common chord OKOK. Since the circles CAC_A and CBC_B have the same radius, the quadrilateral AOBKAOBK is rhombus. Thus point K1K_1 is the middle of ABAB.

Figure 1

Similarly, we can show that L1L_1 is the middle of BCBC, M1M_1 is the middle of CDCD and N1N_1 is the middle of ADAD.
From the triangles OKLOKL, OLMOLM, OMNOMN and ONKONK we conclude that: KLK1L1KL \parallel K_1L_1, LML1M1LM \parallel L_1M_1, MNM1N1MN \parallel M_1N_1 and NKN1K1NK \parallel N_1K_1 (because the line segments K1L1K_1L_1, L1M1L_1M_1, M1N1M_1N_1 and N1K1N_1K_1 connect the middles of the sides of a triangle).
Hence the quadrilaterals KLMNKLMN and K1L1M1N1K_1L_1M_1N_1 have their sides parallel. But we know that the middles of the sides of a quadrilateral define a parallelogram. So the quadrilateral KLMNKLMN is parallelogram.

Solution 2

Since the line segment KOKO is the common chord of the equal circles CAC_A and CBC_B, it is the perpendicular bisector of the line of the centers ABAB and vice versa.
Hence the quadrilateral KAOBKAOB is rhombus, and so

AK=OB.(1) AK = OB. \tag{1}

Similarly the quadrilateral LCOBLCOB is rhombus and
CL=OB.(2) CL = OB. \tag{2}
From (1) and (2) it follows that the quadrilateral KACLKACL is parallelogram, so
KL=AC.(3) KL = AC. \tag{3}
Working similarly we can prove that the quadrilateral MNACMNAC is parallelogram and that
NM=AC.(4) NM = AC. \tag{4}
From (3) and (4) it follows that KLMNKLMN is parallelogram.

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