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Similar Triangles, Inradii, Parallel. Level: High School, SAT Prep, College geometry
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Geometry Problem 95
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See complete Problem 95
Similar Triangles, Inradii, Parallel. Level: High School, SAT Prep, College geometry
Post your solutions or ideas in the comments.
Just saw the problem on the Mathematica Blog and followed the Mathematica Demo at
ReplyDeletehttp://demonstrations.wolfram.com/TheRadiiOfFourIncircles/
So I wondered why it was true. Placing the radii of the incircles to the tangent points on BC and using similar triangles makes it clear:
r/BC=r1/BE =r2/EG =r3/GC=(r1+r2+r3)/(BE+EG+GC).
Since (BE+EG+GC=BC), r = r1+r2+r3.