In the parallelogram point is chosen on side . Consider the circle through and that is tangent to the extension of beyond at point . The extension of beyond intersects the circle at . If the quadrilateral is cyclic, prove that .
Solution
Let be the second common point of and the circle. One can show that is between and . Denote , . Since is a cyclic quadrilateral by hypothesis, we have ; since is also cyclic, . Thus and are the measures of adjacent angles in a parallelogram, hence . It follows that , and are collinear.

Let , then as is cyclic. Hence due to .
Triangles and are similar as they share an angle at and . The similitude gives , or . On the other hand, by power of a point, . Hence . Since (opposite sides of a parallelogram), we obtain , as desired.
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