Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Tangential or Circumscribed Quadrilateral: Pitot Theorem


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Level: High School, SAT Prep, College geometry

4 comments:

  1. it is easy to prove using th fact that tangents from the same point to the same circle are equal

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  2. Anonymous is right... by substitution we have a reflexive property so the theorem is true. Quite elementary

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  3. if the the point of contacts are joined and perimeter of this cyclic quad is given , can we find the perimeter of the circumscribed quad.?

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  4. The converse is more difficult to prove.

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