# Problem Of The Week #382 Sep 5th, 2019

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#### anemone

##### MHB POTW Director
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Here is this week's POTW:

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Let $ABCD$ be an inscribed quadrilateral. Let $P$, $Q$ and $R$ be the feet of the perpendiculars from $D$ to the lines $BC$, $CA$ and $AB$ respectively. Show that $PQ = QR$ if and only if the bisectors of $\angle ABC$ and $\angle ADC$ meet on $AC.$

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#### anemone

##### MHB POTW Director
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No one answered last week's POTW. You can refer to the suggested solution as shown below.

Denote in the triangle $ABC$ the angles at $A$ and $C$ by $\alpha$ and $\gamma$ respectively. $P$ and $Q$ are incident to the Thales circle of $CD$ and $\sin \angle PCQ=\sin \gamma$ or $PQ=CD\sin \gamma$.

Similarly, $QR=AD\sin \alpha$. By condition

$PQ=CD \sin \gamma=AD\sin \alpha=QR$

Rearranging and applying the sine rule for the triangle $ABC$ yields

$\dfrac{CD}{AD}=\dfrac{\sin \alpha}{\sin \gamma}=\dfrac{CB}{AB}$

By the angle bisector theorem, this holds if and only if the bisectors of $\angle ABC$ and $\angle ADC$ meet the segment $AC$ at the very same point.

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