Problem:
is a diameter of circle . is a point on such that . Distinct circles and are tangent to at and and to at . The lines and intersect again at and . What is the ratio ?
Problem:
is a diameter of circle . is a point on such that . Distinct circles and are tangent to at and and to at . The lines and intersect again at and . What is the ratio ?
Solution:
Answer:
Since the problem only deals with ratios, we can assume that the radius of is . As we have proven in Problem 5, points and are midpoints of arc . Since is a diameter, is also a diameter, and thus .
Let , , and denote the centers of circles , , and . Since is tangent to , we have . But . So is a right triangle, and . Thus, , which means and .
Since , we have . Thus .