Identical circles have their centers aligned as shown, with the middle circle inscribed in a triangle. Show that the outer circles can be made tangent to the green circumcircle if the red axis is rotated correctly.
Author: Marshall W. Buck
Two-story A-frame house
The slanted lines are perpendicular, and the one in the bottom story bisects the angle. Show that red equals green, so the stories have the same height.
Colour convergence
A green line connects two points of tangency of a triangle to its incircle. A red line is the angle bisector at a vertex, and an orange line connects the midpoints of two sides. Show that the three lines are concurrent.
Angle versus height
What is the ratio orange/green?
Two quarter-circles fit inside a square, and five circles fit inside the overlapped region, centred. What is the ratio of the (straight line) segment lengths red to blue? (The segments connect to points of tangency.)
In times out
What is the area of the green rectangle, which has sides tangent to the incircle and circumcircle of a triangle with side lengths a, b, c.? (Write the answer as a multiple of a quotient of two elementary symmetric functions in a, b, c.)
Shots in the dome
A beam from the top of one tower cuts through the dome, reflects off the ground, and hits the top of the other tower. Show that the line connecting the orange dots, the line connecting the blue dots, and the ground line are concurrent.
Wedging the circle
Four similar triangles share one circle as incircle or excircle. Show that orange dotted lines must be concurrent.
Interlocked triangles
Do the blue, green, and orange triangles have the same shape?
Ball of yarn
A cyclic hexagon has concurrent cross diagonals. What is the ratio of the product of the orange sides compared to the product of the purple sides. (ace:bdf).