Let be an acute-angled triangle with altitudes and meeting at . Let be the midpoint of segment , and suppose that the circumcircles of and meet at points and with on the same side of as . Prove that the lines , , and all pass through a single point on the circumcircle of .
Solution
Let denote the intersection of lines and . Since quadrilaterals and are cyclic, we have , and . Therefore, is cyclic. This in turn implies that , and so is also cyclic.
Let denote the base of the altitude from to . Then , and all lie on the 9-point circle of , and so are cyclic. We also know , and are cyclic, which implies . Therefore, lies on the circumcircle of .
Now let and denote the intersections of line with the circumcircle of , chosen so that lie on the line in that order. We will show that , which will complete the proof. However, first note that the circumcircle of has radius , and the circumcircle of has radius . Thus the two circles have equal radius, and so they must be symmetrical about the point . In particular, .
Since , we furthermore know that is the circumcenter of both and . Thus, . By Power of a Point, we then have . In particular, this means that the circumcircle of
is tangent to at , which means .
Similarly , and so . Therefore, also lies on the line .
Finally, the same argument shows that also intersects the circum-
circle of at a point on line . Thus, and are
all chosen from the intersection of the circumcircle of and the
line . In particular, two of and must be equal. However,
since and already intersect at , and since
and already intersect at . Thus, , and the proof is
complete.