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Crazy hat

The diameter of the semicircle is a side of a rectangle. Show that for any such rectangle, and any point along its top edge, the configuration produces three collinear red dots.

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Solution

Solution by Bob Ruyle.

Note that this puzzle can be generalised to any chord and tangent, as was pointed out by Matthew Arcus.

Generalisation of Crazy Hat.

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