Problem

Source: Dutch NMO 2014 p2 seniors

Tags: geometry, parallelogram, right triangle, isosceles, Isosceles Triangle



On the sides of triangle $ABC$, isosceles right-angled triangles $AUB, CVB$, and $AWC$ are placed. These three triangles have their right angles at vertices $U, V$ , and $W$, respectively. Triangle $AUB$ lies completely inside triangle $ABC$ and triangles $CVB$ and $AWC$ lie completely outside $ABC$. See the figure. Prove that quadrilateral $UVCW$ is a parallelogram. [asy][asy] import markers; unitsize(1.5 cm); pair A, B, C, U, V, W; A = (0,0); B = (2,0); C = (1.7,2.5); U = (B + rotate(90,A)*(B))/2; V = (B + rotate(90,C)*(B))/2; W = (C + rotate(90,A)*(C))/2; draw(A--B--C--cycle); draw(A--W, StickIntervalMarker(1,1,size=2mm)); draw(C--W, StickIntervalMarker(1,1,size=2mm)); draw(B--V, StickIntervalMarker(1,2,size=2mm)); draw(C--V, StickIntervalMarker(1,2,size=2mm)); draw(A--U, StickIntervalMarker(1,3,size=2mm)); draw(B--U, StickIntervalMarker(1,3,size=2mm)); draw(rightanglemark(A,U,B,5)); draw(rightanglemark(B,V,C,5)); draw(rightanglemark(A,W,C,5)); dot("$A$", A, S); dot("$B$", B, S); dot("$C$", C, N); dot("$U$", U, NE); dot("$V$", V, NE); dot("$W$", W, NW); [/asy][/asy]