Let be a right angled triangle with and its altitude. We draw parallel lines from to the vertical sides of the triangle and we call their points of intersection with and respectively. The parallel line from to intersects the line at the point . Let be the symmetric of with respect to the line and the projections of onto and respectively. If is the point of intersection of the lines and , prove that .
Solution
Suppose that the line intersects the lines and at the points , respectively. The line being diagonal of the rectangle passes through , which by construction of , is the middle of the other diagonal . The triangles are similar, so . By the similarity of the triangles , we get . We have also that , therefore
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Since , we have that the right triangles and are equal. Thus the altitudes from the vertices of the triangles respectively are equal. It follows that and since we get that the points are collinear.
In the triangle we have, and , so . Therefore the points belong to the same circle. Also, so the quadrilateral is cyclic. Thus, the points all lie on a circle. From the above, we infer that
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