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Friday, March 4, 2011
Problem 590: Triangle, Incenter, Incircle, Tangency Point, Midpoint, Areas.
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Geometry Problem
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Using the result of Problem 587,
ReplyDelete2(S2 + S3)
=r(b-c) + r(a-b)
=r(a-c)
=2S1
I cheated, using a 3,4,5 right triangle and graph paper. Using Cartesian coordinates and Pythagorean relationships, the numbers work just fine. I intend to try a couple other 'friendly' triangles as well, but I'm sure the intent here is to develop a more general solution based on Euclid.
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