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angle chasing in a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides, few equal segments

Source: Dutch NMO 2013 p3

September 6, 2019
parallelgeometryanglesdiagonals

Problem Statement

The sides BCBC and ADAD of a quadrilateral ABCDABCD are parallel and the diagonals intersect in OO. For this quadrilateral CD=AO|CD| =|AO| and BC=OD|BC| = |OD| hold. Furthermore CACA is the angular bisector of angle BCDBCD. Determine the size of angle ABCABC.
[asy] unitsize(1 cm);
pair A, B, C, D, O;
D = (0,0); B = 3*dir(180 + 72); C = 3*dir(180 + 72 + 36); A = extension(D, D + (1,0), C, C + dir(180 - 36)); O = extension(A, C, B, D);
draw(A--B--C--D--cycle); draw(B--D); draw(A--C);
dot("AA", A, N); dot("BB", B, SW); dot("CC", C, SE); dot("DD", D, N); dot("OO", O, E); [/asy]
Attention: the figure is not drawn to scale.