Let be the altitude of the right angled triangle with . Let be the altitude of the triangle and be the altitude of the triangle respectively. Let be chosen on the line such that is parallel to . Let be the symmetric of with respect to the line and the projections of onto and respectively. Prove that , where is the intersection point of and .
Solution
Suppose that the line intersects the lines , and at the points , , respectively. The line being diagonal of the rectangle passes through , which by construction of is the middle of the other diagonal . The triangles and are similar, so . By the similarity of the triangles and we get . We have also that , therefore
Since , we have that the right angled triangles and are equal. Thus the altitudes from the vertices and of triangles and are respectively equal. It follows that and since we get that the points are collinear. In triangle we have
so . Therefore the points belong to the same circle. Also so the quadrilateral is cyclic. Thus the points all lie on a circle. From the above, we infer that
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