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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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  1. Draw the axis of the parallel lines i
  2. Draw an auxiliary circle with the same distance as between the two parallels
  3. Draw a parallel j that intersects the centre of the given circle
  4. 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.
  5. 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)
  6. Draw a circle d of size r = |AC|. (C is the intersection of circle c with the axis j)
  7. The intersections of circle d and the axis of the parallel lines are the centers of two of the three resulting circles.
  8. Draw a perpendicular line l to the parallel lines that intersects the center of the given circle a.
  9. The intersection of the perpendicular l and the axis of the parallels is the center of the third resulting circle.