Let be a parallelogram and variable points on the sides , respectively, such that is a cyclic quadrilateral with circumcenter , , and . Let be the intersection of lines and , and be the intersection of lines and . Prove that the circle passes through a fixed point as vary according to the given restrictions.
Solution
The key idea for this problem lies in the following lemma:
Lemma: Let be a triangle and a point in the interior of angle such that . Define such that is a parallelogram. Then and are isogonal with respect to .
Proof. Consider the triangle . Since is a parallelogram, we have and . By the alternate interior angles theorem, we have . Since , we can conclude that . Thus, and are isogonal with respect to .
Now, let's proceed with the solution to the main problem. We need to prove that the circle passes through a fixed point as vary according to the given restrictions.
Let be the intersection of lines and . Since and , by the Lemma, we know that and are isogonal with respect to .
Since is a cyclic quadrilateral, we have . Thus, . This implies that and are isogonal with respect to . Similarly, and are isogonal with respect to .
Therefore, we have and . Combining these equalities, we get . This implies that is a cyclic quadrilateral.
Let be the circumcenter of . Since is a cyclic quadrilateral, is also the circumcenter of . Therefore, lies on the circle .
Thus, we have shown that as vary according to the given restrictions, the circle passes through the fixed point . This completes the proof.