The incircle of a triangle touches the sides at points , respectively. The circle passing through point and touches the line at intersects the line segments and at the points and , respectively. The line passing through and parallel to and the line passing through and parallel to intersect at the point . Let denote the circumradius of the triangles , respectively. Prove that .
Solution
Let be the intersection of the lines and , be the intersection of the lines and . We will prove that .
The power of with respect to the circumcircle of the triangle gives
Therefore, . On the other hand as we have
and hence . Similarly we can get and then . Thus,
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Now note that and hence the points are concyclic. Thus the circumradius of the triangle is . Since , and , we get . In a similar way we can get and the result follows.
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