What sort of a quadrilateral is formed by the tangents at the ends of two diameters of a circle?
Parallelogram
Let PQ and RS be two diagonals of a circle with center as O, and tangents through their end points make a quadrilateral ABCD.
Now, we know that Tangent at any point is perpendicular to the radius at the point of contact
OR ⊥ CD and OS ⊥ AB
⇒ ∠ORD = ∠OSB [Both 90°]
⇒ AB || CD [If two lines are cut by a transversal and the alternate interior angles are equal, then the lines are parallel]
Also,
OP ⊥ AD and OQ ⊥ BC
⇒ ∠APQ = ∠CQP [Both 90°]
⇒ AD || BC [If two lines are cut by a transversal and the alternate interior angles are equal, then the lines are parallel]
⇒ In quadrilateral ABCD, opposite sides are parallel
⇒ ABCD is a parallelogram.