Rectangles , and are erected outside an acute triangle . Suppose that Prove that lines , and are concurrent.
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
The angle condition implies the circumcircles of the three rectangles concur at a single point . ! Then , hence lies on etc., so we're done. Remark. As one might guess from the two-sentence solution, the entire difficulty of the problem is getting the characterization of the concurrence point.
Solution 2
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We first claim that the three circles and share a common intersection.
Let the second intersection of and be . Then
which implies that is cyclic as desired.
Now we show that is the intersection of and Note that so are collinear. Similarly, and are collinear, so the three lines concur and we are done.
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