Let be a parallelogram such that . A point is chosen on the extension of the segment beyond . The circumcircle of the triangle meets the segment again at , and the circumcircle of the triangle meets the segment again at . Prove that the lines , and are concurrent. Common remarks. The introductory steps presented here are used in all solutions below. Since , we have . Since the quadrilaterals and are cyclic, we obtain so the points , and lie on some circle .
Solution
Introduce the point ; we need to prove that and are collinear. By means of the circle we have
(the last equality holds in view of ), which means that the points , and also lie on some circle . Using the circles and we finally obtain
that proves the desired collinearity. !
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