The tangency points of two tangents of a circle are connected. Three perpendiculars are drawn from a point on the circle, of which two have a given length. What’s the proportion red : yellow?
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Red : yellow is a : b.
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Well, the solution is a/b considering that the segment which contains b is also tangent to the other point of contact. It might sound obvious but in the problem that was not very clear.