Two circles and intersect at and . is the common tangent of them near to such that is on and is on . intersects for the second time at , and intersects for the second time at . is the intersection of and . If be the second intersection point of circumcircle and circumcircle , prove that
Solution
Since is on both circumcircles of and , so there is a spiral similarity about carrying one of these circles to another such that it carries to , and to . Suppose this similarity carries to a point . It is enough that we prove that the points are collinear, because then, considering the similarity of and we have:
Now we prove that are collinear:
The spiral similarity about , carries to respectively. So the triangles and are similar. From the other hand: (let denote the measure of the arc )
Thus the triangles and are similar, and hence and are similar. So , also . From which we deduce that and are similar. So , and:
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