Let be a triangle with circumcircle . Let the bisector of meet segment at and circle at . The circumcircle of meets line at , and meets at . The bisector of meets segment at Given that determine the degree measure of
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Let ∠ A B M = ∠ M B C = a and ∠ C M Q = ∠ Q M P = b . Because quadrilateral B E D C is cyclic, we have that ∠ A C P = a and ∠ A B M = ∠ M P C = ∠ A C M = a because they substend the same arc or arc with the same degree.
Now notice that Q is the incenter of △ P M C because it is the intersection of two angle bisectors. This implies that ∠ M P C = ∠ Q P C = 2 a .
∠ A C P = ∠ A M P = a since they substend the same arc. However this implies that ∠ A M P = ∠ M P C = a ⟹ A M ∣ ∣ P C which implies that quadrilateral A M C P is an isosceles trapezoid.
This implies that M C = A P and since P Q = M C , we have P Q = A P which implies △ A P Q is isosceles. This gives us ∠ A Q P = ∠ P A Q and since ∠ P A C = ∠ P M C = 2 b because they substend the same arc, we have that ∠ A Q P = ∠ P A Q = 2 b .
Call the intersection of the diagonals of A M C P , T . Since ∠ M A C = ∠ M P C = a and ∠ A M P = ∠ A C P = a , we have that ∠ M T C = 2 a by exterior angle theorem which further implies that ∠ P T Q = 1 8 0 ∘ − 2 a . Now, equating the sum of the angles of △ P T Q and △ T M C to 1 8 0 ∘ we get the following two equations: 1 8 0 ∘ − 2 a + 2 b + 2 a 2 b + a + 2 a = 1 8 0 ∘ = 1 8 0 ∘ which can be solved easily to get a = 4 0 ∘ which implies that ∠ A B C = 8 0 ∘ .