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Parallel Lines With A Circle Between Them, One Is Tangential To The Circle
Number of solutions: 3
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Steps
- Draw the axis of the parallel lines i
- Draw an auxiliary circle with the same distance as between the two parallels
- Draw a parallel j that intersects the centre of the given circle
- Take the circle from the second step into the compass and draw a circle b centered at point A while keeping the size of the previously sampled circle.
- Take the given circle a in the compass. Transfer it to the intersection of B and name the circle c. (Intersection of circle b and axis j)
- Draw a circle d of size r = |AC|. (C is the intersection of circle c with the axis j)
- The intersections of circle d and the axis of the parallel lines are the centers of two of the three resulting circles.
- Draw a perpendicular line l to the parallel lines that intersects the center of the given circle a.
- The intersection of the perpendicular l and the axis of the parallels is the center of the third resulting circle.