SOLUTION: A pleasant day Sir/ Madam, my daughter has this problem in geometry and I am not good in geometric proofs, can you please help me? the illustration or drawing is a rectangle ins

Question 692844: A pleasant day Sir/ Madam, my daughter has this problem in geometry and I am not good in geometric proofs, can you please help me?
the illustration or drawing is a rectangle inscribed in a circle
Given: Quadrilateral ABCD is a rectangle
Prove: line segment AC and line segment BD are diameters of the circle
Thank you very much for anyone who can help me!
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

first draw the picture:

next, we will need to prove this:
theorem: Diagonal of any rectangle inscribed in a circle is a diameter of the circle. (
This is essentially the converse of Thales' theorem.
Let A, B, C and D be the vertices of a rectangle inscribed in a circle and let AC and BD be the diagonals of this rectangle.
We can now focus on any one of the four triangles:
, , and
Let's take :
side of this triangle is the of the rectangle
and are two sides of the rectangle, which potentially may be of different length (but we will prove they must be the if the area of the inscribed rectangle is maximized).
The angle at is the right angle since it is one of the angles of the rectangle, which by definition has four right angles.
Hence, looking at the triangle, we can see that this is a triangle inscribed in the circle.
Therefore to prove (1), we need to show that side of any such triangle must be a diameter of circle.
Proof:
Choose any three points , and on the circle and connect these points to make a triangle .
Let's suppose that the claim is that the angle at is right angle.
We will show that if this is true then it must follow that is a of the .
Connect the center of the circle () with each of the vertices of the triangle creating the segments , and .
Let's call the angle defined by the path as and the angle defined by the path as .
Since , and are all of length (equal to the length of the radius of the circle ) then

(, and ) are .
We will next want to find the angle between and (the angle at made out by segments and ) using only angles and as given.
The angle between and is equal to � (due to the fact that is and the fact that the sum of all three internal angles in a triangle sum to �).
Similarly, the angle between and is equal to �.
Finally, since all the three angles at add up to � (full circle), it follows that the angle between and is equal to .
However, the angle at of the original triangle is equal to (follows from the fact that and triangles are ).
This angle was claimed to be � and therefore the angle between and is equal to �.
This means that the points and and the of the circle () are .
In other words, the of the circle is on the straight line segment , which in turn means that be a of the.
So, we can conclude that of the rectangle inscribed in a circle be a circles .

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