Let be a triangle. Circle passes through points and . Circle is tangent internally to and also to sides and at , , and , respectively. Let be midpoint of (containing ) of . Prove that lines , , and are concurrent.
Solution
Let be the intersection point of lines and , and the intersection point of lines and .

Because circle is tangent to both sides and at and , we have . Applying Menelaus' theorem to triangle and line we obtain
Because is the midpoint of arc of circle containing , line is the external bisector of angle . We deduce that
To prove that , we have to prove that , which is equivalent to proving that
Let and be the second intersection points of lines and with circle , respectively. Because circles and are tangent at , segments and are parallel, and therefore
Because lines and are tangent to at and , respectively, we have from the power of points and with respect to circle
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