Exercise 1264Geometry › Plane geometryL1Added 4 Nov 2026
Two circles, two secants and a pair of parallel lines
#directed angles#cyclic quadrilateral#parallel lines
Statement
Two circles and intersect at two points and . A line through meets again at and again at . A line through meets again at and again at . Prove that .
Hint
Use directed angles modulo . Four points are concyclic iff .
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Solution
Chase. are concyclic (on ), so
are collinear, so .
are concyclic (on ), so
Altogether, . Since and are the same line , , so .
Remark. If the second line is tangent, replace the inscribed angle by the tangent-chord angle.
Lesson. Directed angles mod remove every "inside or outside?" worry.