Saturday, June 30, 2012

Problem 776: Triangle, Isogonal lines, Congruent angles, Perpendicular, Concyclic points, Circle, Center, Midpoint

Geometry Problem
Level: Mathematics Education, High School, Honors Geometry, College.

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Online Geometry Problem 776: Triangle, Isogonal lines, Congruent angles, Perpendicular, Concyclic points, Circle, Center, Midpoint.

4 comments:

  1. http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2386/p776resuelto.png

    1) Prolong FO and HE to point P. Note that FD is paralell to HP. Then as O is midpoint of DE, it's easy too see that triangles FOD and POF are congruent (ASA). This implies that O is HPF hypotenuse's midpoint , i.e. O it's circumcircle. Analog for triangle GM, if we extend GD and MO to Q.

    2) As <H + <M = 180°, and <F+<G=180°, the quadrilaterals BMEH and BFDG are cyclics. Then, looking the picture (2.a), (2.b) we can see that <FHM = <FGM. Hence FHGM is cyclic, and by (1) we have that O is its circumcircle.

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  2. I would like to suggest another way to prove the concyclic part.

    Let BD intersects EH at P and BE intersects DG at Q

    By similar triangles,
    (BH/BF) = (BP/BD) and (BG/BM) = (BQ/BE)

    Say BP = kBH, BD = kBF, BQ = mBG, BE = mBM, where k,m are constants for ratios.

    Now consider triangle BDQ ~ triangle BPE, hence
    (BP/BE)=(BQ/BD)
    => BP*BD = BQ*BE
    => kBH * kBF = mBG * mBM

    However, k = m as angleABD = angleEBC, so they have the same trigonometric ratio.
    So BH * BF = BG * BM

    By the converse of power of the circle at B, it is proved.

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  3. http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/5629/problem776.png

    Connect lines per attached sketch
    Note that quadrilaterals BFDG and BHEM are cyclic
    We have ∠BFG=∠BDG and ∠BMH=∠BEH
    We al so have ∆BHE similar to ∆ BGD…. ( case AA)
    So ∠BDG=∠BEH ==> ∠BFG=∠BMH
    So quadrilateral HFMG is cyclic.
    Perpendicular bisectors of HF and GM intersect each other at O
    So O is the center of qua. HFMG

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  4. The concylic part is very easily proved by the 2 sets of similar triangles without any additional construction yielding BF.BH = BG.BM which implies that FHGM is concylic

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