Let be a parallelogram such that . A point is chosen on the extension of the segment beyond . The circumcircle of the triangle meets the segment again at , and the circumcircle of the triangle meets the segment again at . Prove that the lines , , and are concurrent.
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Solution
Common remarks. The introductory steps presented here are used in all solutions below.
Since , we have . Since the quadrilaterals and are cyclic, we obtain
so the points , and lie on some circle .
Solution 1. Introduce the point ; we need to prove that and are collinear.
By means of the circle we have
(the last equality holds in view of ), which means that the points , and also lie on some circle .
Using the circles and we finally obtain
that proves the desired collinearity.
Solution 2. Let denote the circle . Since
the line is tangent to .
Now, let meet again at a point (which necessarily lies on the extension of beyond ). Using the circle , along with the fact that is tangent to , we have
so the points , and are collinear.
Applying Pascal's theorem to the hexagon (where is regarded as the tangent to at ), we see that the points , , and are collinear. Hence the lines , , and are concurrent.
Solution 3. As in Solution 1, we introduce the point and aim at proving that the points , and are collinear. As in Solution 2, we denote ; but now we define to be the second meeting point of with .
Using the circle and noticing that is tangent to , we obtain
So , and hence lies on .
Now the chain of equalities (1) shows also that , which implies that the points , and lie on some circle . Hence, the lines , , and are the pairwise radical axes of the circles , , and , so those lines are concurrent.

