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Boxing the circles

Four semicircles packed in a rectangle, tangent at four points. Show that the blue semicircle intersects the top horizontal line as shown. (The red circles are the same size.)

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Solution

The right angle at G follows from extending chords in the semicircles. The rectangles ACDE and CBHD have perpendicular diagonals, leading to the right angle at D.

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