CIRCLE • LINE • LINE
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Paralell Lines One Touches Circle And One Goes Through
Number of solutions: 3
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Steps
- Two parallel lines and a circle, one touching and one intersecting.
- Draw a perpendicular to the lines that passes through the centre of the given circle.
- Find the center of the line segment formed by the two intersections with the given lines. Name this point S1, it is the center of one of the solutions.
- Draw a parallel line i with the given lines that passes through the point S1.
- Draw a circle with the radius of the given line + the distance of the point S1 and one of the intersections.
- The intersections of this circle with the straight line are the next two solutions, S2 and S3.
- We just draw the final circle from the centers S1, S2, S3 with radius distance of S1 and one of the intersections.