Problem

Source: 2023 South Russian Girls MO - Assara Seniors p7

Tags: analytic geometry, conics, parabola, geometry



A parabola is drawn on the coordinate plane - the graph of a square trinomial. The vertices of triangle $ABC$ lie on this parabola so that the bisector of angle $\angle BAC$ is parallel to the axis $Ox$ . Prove that the midpoint of the median drawn from vertex $A$ lies on the axis of the parabola.