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Geometry Difficulty 5.1 AIME, harder Prove it Ukraine

The convex quadrilateral ABCDABCD is given.
BAD=BCD=120\angle BAD = \angle BCD = 120^\circ, ACD=80\angle ACD = 80^\circ, BC=CDBC = CD, OO is the intersection point of its diagonals.
Prove, that BO2=AOACBO^2 = AO \cdot AC.

Solution

Let's draw a circle with the center at the point CC and radius BC=CDBC = CD. Points BB and DD are located on this circle, but BCD=120\angle BCD = 120^\circ, so, arc ADAD, that doesn't contain point AA, is 240240^\circ. That's why its inscribed angle is 120120^\circ. So, point AA is located on the circle too. Then it's easy to calculate angles (Fig. 47).

ACB=40\angle ACB = 40^\circ, DBA=40\angle DBA = 40^\circ -- is subtended by the central angle ACD=80\angle ACD = 80^\circ, because ACB\triangle ACB is isosceles and the apex angle is 4040^\circ. So,

CAB=ABC=70\angle CAB = \angle ABC = 70^\circ. So, AOB=70\angle AOB = 70^\circ that's why AOB\triangle AOB is also isosceles and similar to ACB\triangle ACB, that's why we can write the following equation:

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Fig. 47

AOAB=ABACAOAC=AB2=BO2, \frac{AO}{AB} = \frac{AB}{AC} \Rightarrow AO \cdot AC = AB^2 = BO^2,

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