Let be a triangle. Let be a point on the segment , such that the circle with diameter passes through the incentre of . Prove that
where is the length of the segment , and is half the perimeter of .
Solution
Let be the second tangent through to the circle aside from . Note that
where we use the fact that is the angular bisector of , and that is the angular bisector of the angle between and . It follows that . The distance between these two parallel lines is with the radius of the incircle.
Denote the distance from to by . Then we see that the area of equals on the one hand, and on the other hand. It now follows from that
We conclude that
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