The images under reflection of the circumcentre of triangle ABC in the sides of the triangle are X, Y, and Z. Prove △XYZ is congruent to △ABC and corresponding sides are parallel.
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Let X, Y and Z be the reflections in BC, CA and AB respectively and let E and F be the midpoints of CA and AB respectively.
Since Z is the reflection of O in AB, AZ=AO=OB. Similarly AY=OC. Also ZZAB=LOAB and ZYAC=LOAC, hence LBAC=21∠ZAY. Since O is the circumcentre, LBAC=21∠BOC and so ∠ZAY=∠BOC which implies that ∠ZAY is congruent to ∠BOC, hence ZY=BC. Now ZB=OB=OC=CY, hence ZYCB is a parallelogram and YZ∥BC. Similarly XY∥AB and XZ∥AC, and so the triangles ABC and XYZ are congruent and corresponding sides are parallel.
Solution 2
Let X, Y and Z be the reflections in BC, CA and AB respectively and let E and F be the midpoints of CA and AB respectively.
Because E and F are the mid-points of the sides CA and AB, the Intercept Theorem (or the Mid-Point Theorem) implies that EF∥BC and ∣BC∣=2∣EF∣. Because F is the mid-point of OZ and E the mid-point of OY, the same reason gives EF∥YZ and ∣YZ∣=2∣EF∣. Hence YZ∥BC and ∣YZ∣=∣BC∣. Similarly, XY∥AB, ∣XY∣=∣AB∣ and XZ∥AC, ∣XZ∣=∣AC∣ and so the triangles ABC and XYZ are congruent and corresponding sides are parallel.
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