Given a circle and three different points on it, , and . Construct a triangle whose circumcircle is the given circle, and the intersection points of the angle bisector, median, and altitude from one vertex with the circumcircle are the given points , and , respectively.
Problem 1161
Official solution
Let be the vertex from which the three notable lines originate. We know that bisects the arc not containing . If we draw the perpendicular bisector of , it passes through points and , where is the center of the circumcircle, and and , that is, . Furthermore, we know that the lines and have a common point on the side , since both bisect it.
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Based on this, the construction proceeds as follows: We draw the line and draw a line parallel to it through the point . This intersects the circle at the vertex . We draw a perpendicular to through the intersection point of the lines and , and the intersection points of this perpendicular with the circle are the vertices and of the triangle.
From the construction, it follows that the obtained triangle, if it exists, satisfies the condition. If the problem has a solution, there is clearly only one. We claim that if the points are on an arc smaller than a semicircle, then the problem has a solution. An important step in the construction is the construction of the intersection point of the lines and . This intersection point is only an interior point of the circle if and are on different sides of the diameter , and since , and are also on different sides of the line , that is, indeed lies between and . We know that the diameter separates the points and , similarly, the line does as well. Reflect the point over , since , it follows that also separates the points and , that is, is on one of the arcs defined by the points and , while is on the other. The angle is a right angle, from which it follows that , and are indeed on an arc smaller than a semicircle.