Let be an acute-angled triangle with and circumradius . Furthermore, let be the foot of the altitude from on and let denote the point on the line such that holds with lying between and . Finally, let denote the mid-point of the arc on the circumcircle that does not include .
Prove: .
Solution
As usual, we denote the angles , and by , and , respectively. The center of the circumcircle is denoted by , see Figure 1.
Figure 1: Problem 2
By assumption, we have . Let be the point on the circumcircle of diametrically opposite to .
By the inscribed angle theorem, we have . By definition, is the intersection of the angular bisector of and the circumcircle. We note that
Since we also have
it therefore follows that holds. Since we also have , triangles and are congruent, and therefore follows. Since is a diameter of the circumcircle, we have , and the claim is proven.
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