Isosceles triangle and tangent circles
Source: All-Russian Olympiad 2006 finals, problem 10.4
May 7, 2006
geometrygeometric transformationreflectioncircumcirclehomothetysymmetryratio
Problem Statement
Consider an isosceles triangle with , and a circle which is tangent to the sides and of this triangle and intersects the side at the points and . The segment intersects the circle at a point (apart from ). Let and be the reflections of the point in the points and , respectively. Show that the circumcircle of triangle is tangent to the circle .