In a convex quadrilateral , its diagonals meet at and , are the midpoints of the sides , , respectively. The circumcircles and , of the triangles and , respectively, meet at point . If the parallel from to the line meets the circle at , prove that: .
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
In order to prove , it suffices , or . From the cyclic and we get
where is the point of intersection of and .
It suffices to prove that: . Angle chasing gives
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This means that and are similar with . Moreover,
where the triangles and are similar with similarity ratio
If is the midpoint of , then the triangle has , with
Therefore, the triangle is similar to , and so

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Solution 2
As in the first solution, it suffices to prove that: . Let , be the projections of to , , respectively. Then the line is a Simpson line of the complete quadrilateral and is the Newton-Gauss line. It is well-known that they are perpendicular. Therefore
where in the third equality we used that is cyclic and in the last we used that is cyclic.

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