Let be the centroid of a right-angled triangle with . Let be the point on ray such that , and let be the point on ray such that . Prove that the circumcircles of triangles and meet at a point on side .
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Since , the point lies on the semicircle with diameter which implies that, if is the midpoint of side , then . This implies that triangle is isosceles and hence that . By definition, lies on segment and it follows that . This implies that triangles and are similar and hence that . Now if denotes the foot of the perpendicular from to , it follows that triangles and are similar which implies that . Therefore and, by power of a point, quadrilateral is cyclic. This implies that lies on the circumcircle of triangle and, by a symmetric argument, it follows that also lies on the circumcircle of triangle . Therefore these two circumcircles meet at the point on side .
Solution 2
Define and as in Solution 1. Let be the point on side such that and triangle is isosceles. Since , it follows that is cyclic and hence that . As in Solution 1, and hence . Therefore is cyclic and, by power of a point, . Since is isosceles, is the midpoint of and thus, since is the midpoint of , it follows that . Therefore is cyclic, implying the result as in Solution 1.