Playing with trapezoids
Source: Indonesian Mathematical Olympiad 2014 Day 1 Problem 3
September 3, 2014
geometrytrapezoidparallelogramtrigonometrygeometric transformationdilationlogarithms
Problem Statement
Let be a trapezoid (quadrilateral with one pair of parallel sides) such that . Suppose that and meet at and and meet at . Construct the parallelograms and . Prove that passes through the midpoint of the segment .