Monday, July 2, 2012

Problem 778: Triangle, Distance from the Orthocenter to a Vertex, Circle, Circumradius, Side, Square

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

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Online Geometry Problem 778: Triangle, Distance from the Orthocenter to a Vertex, Circle, Circumradius, Side, Square.

5 comments:

  1. http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5918/problem778.png

    Draw lines per attached sketch
    We have LC//BH and LB//CE
    So BLCH is a parallelogram and
    BH=LC
    In right triangle ACL we have AC^2+CL^2=AL^2
    Or BH^2+AC^2=4.R^2

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  2. http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/3764/p778resuelto.png
    (look the construction of the picture).

    As AP is diameter, <PCA = 90° and <ABP=90°. Note that PC and HC are paralell to BH and BP respectively. Then BH = PC (because BPCH is paralelogram) and by pythagorean theorem we have that PC^2 + AC^2=4R^2. Hence BH^2+AC^2=4R^2

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  3. BH = 2R cos(ABC)...by Prob 777
    AC = 2R sin(ABC)...by Sine rule

    BH^2 + AC^2 = 4R^2

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  4. By using the result in problem 777, the statement would be reduce to AC = 2R sinABC
    ,which is obvious under sine law.

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  5. Let AO meet the circle at X.

    < AXB = < B so < BCE = 90. - B = < CAX = CBX hence BX//HC and since BF//XC BXCF is a parellelogram and it thus follows that BH = XC

    Now applying Pythagoras to right Tr. ACX the result follows

    Sumith Peiris
    Moratuwa
    Sri Lanka

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