Let be a triangle and let be its circumcircle. Let and be two parallel lines passing through and respectively. The lines and intersect with for the second time at the points and respectively, with belonging on the arc , and on the arc . Suppose that intersects at , and intersects at . If and are the circumcenters of the triangles and respectively, and is the center of the circumcircle of the triangle , prove that is parallel to and .
Solution
Alternative Solution by PSC. Let us write for the angles of . Since is cyclic, we have . Similarly, we have
where we have also used the fact that and are parallel.
Thus, the triangles and are similar. Analogously, is also similar to them.
Since is a common chord of and then is perpendicular to . Thus,
Similarly, we have . Since are collinear (as in the first solution) we get that is also similar to . Their circumcentres are and respectively, thus .
Since is perpendicular to , letting be the point of intersection of with , we get that . Thus is parallel to and therefore to as well.
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