Pedal tryangle

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Pedal tryangle

Unread post by BinduMathlover » Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:43 pm

Kono trivuj er 2nd pedal triangle deoa thakle ki tar pedal point nirnoy kora jabe? Gele kivabe?

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Re: Pedal tryangle

Unread post by Moon » Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:24 am

Try to use the cyclic quadrilaterals to prove that $\angle JIH=180^0-BDC$. So what you need to do it to erect triangles on the sides of the $\triangle ABC$ which has angle $JIH$ as the angle opposite to $D$. Then the circumcircles of these three triangles will intersect at the pedal point $D$.
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