A circle passing through vertices and of triangle intersects sides and at points and , respectively. If is the intersection point of and , is the foot of the perpendicular line from to and and are the midpoints of and , prove that triangles and are similar.
Solution
Let and be the reflections of with respect to and , respectively. According to Thales' Theorem, triangles and are similar. On the other hand, for triangles and , and appears in both triangles; therefore, these two triangles are similar. Now it suffices to prove that triangles and are similar, i.e. it must be shown that and .

Note that these relations are equivalent to the similarity of triangles and . But is the reflection of with respect to line , so triangles and are congruent and it suffices to show that triangles and are similar.
Since diameters of quadrilateral bisect each other, it is a parallelogram. Thus . This implies that
Furthermore, since is a parallelogram, .
In order to complete the proof it has to be shown that

To prove this, the law of sines can be used in triangles and . It is sufficient to prove that
But and , which means the equation above holds, and this completes the proof.