The triangle is right-angled at . Let be the midpoint of the segment . The point lies on the side and satisfies . The intersection point of the circumcircles of triangles and , different from , is called . Prove that bisects the angle at of triangle .
Solution
The angle is on the one hand the adjacent angle of , and on the other hand, it lies in the cyclic quadrilateral opposite the angle . Consequently, . Similarly, the angle is the adjacent angle of and lies in the cyclic quadrilateral opposite the angle , so . The triangles and thus agree in the interior angles at and as well as at and , and furthermore, by assumption, (the last equality follows from Thales' theorem). According to the congruence theorem wsw, the triangles and are congruent, in particular, their heights from are of equal length. They are, however, the perpendiculars from to the triangle sides and , so lies on the angle bisector.
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