Problem

Source: All-Russian Mathematical Olympiad, Regional round

Tags: quadratics, function graphing, analytic geometry, conics, parabola, geometry, trapezoid



On a cartesian plane a parabola $y = x^2$ is drawn. For a given $k > 0$ we consider all trapezoids inscribed into this parabola with bases parallel to the x-axis, and the product of the lengths of their bases is exactly $k$. Prove that the diagonals of all such trapezoids share a common point.