The incentre of triangle is , and is the foot of the perpendicular from on . The perpendicular from on meets at , and it meets the bisector of at . The perpendicular from on meets at . Prove that .
Solution
Let on be the foot of the perpendicular from on , then
is the radius of the incircle of . Because is the angle bisector of the angle at , we have .

Because and are tangent to the incircle of triangle , we have
Because is parallel to , the Intercept Theorem implies
Because , the Intercept Theorem or the similarity of and implies
Combining the above, we obtain
Because , we see now that the triangles and are similar. In particular, .
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