Given that the quadrilateral is not a cyclic quadrilateral. Let and be respectively the circumcenter and circumradius of triangle . Define and similarly. Prove that:
Solution
Set up coordinates in the plane; then every circle can be expressed as , where is a polynomial of degree at most one. Also note that for every point in the plane, , where is the distance from to the center of the circle, and is the radius of the circle.
Now, for each , let denote the equation of the corresponding circle with center and radius , and let be the distance from to . Then the four points all satisfy the equation
However, the four points are neither concyclic nor collinear, so (1) is neither a circle nor a line. Hence the coefficient of on the left-hand side of (1) must be zero, that is,
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