An isosceles triangle
has side lengths
.
is a point on the circumcircle of triangle
, lying on the arc between
and
not containing
, such that
and
. Let
be the foot of the perpendicular from
to
. What is the length of
?
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Construct the point Y on X B extended such that B Y = X A . Clearly C A X B is cyclic, so we have ∠ C A X = 1 8 0 ∘ − ∠ C B X = ∠ C B Y . Thus triangles C A X and C B Y are congruent by side-angle-side (with C A = C B , X A = B Y and ∠ C A X = ∠ C B Y ). Therefore C X = C Y and this implies that C X Y is an isosceles triangle. Since D is the foot of the perpendicular from C to X B , D is the midpoint of X Y . So X D = 2 X Y = 2 X B + B Y = 2 3 0 0 + 1 0 0 = 2 0 0 .