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Parallel Lines, Point In Between
Number of solutions: 2
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Steps
- Draw a perpendicular bisector l parallel to and the same distance to both lines.
- Draw a circle m with the center at A, and it's radius being the distance between bisector l and either one of the lines.
- Mark the points of intersection of the circle m and the bisector l S1, and S2.
- Finally, draw circles k1, and k2, with their centers at points S1, and S2 and their radii being the distance between each one's respective center and point A.
GeoGebra construction
Steps
- We solve for 2 parallel lines p1 and p2 and for the point A between them
- Draw line s, for which |s p1| = |s p2|
- Draw point M on the line s and construct circle c at the point M, with p1, and p2 as it's tangents.
- Construct line g, which intersects points A and g || p1.
- Name the points of intersection A and g Q1 and Q2.
- We draw the circle k1, which is the displacement of the circle c by the vector Q1 A. We draw a circle k2, which is a displacement of the circle c by the vector Q2 A. In this way, we have obtained the resulting circles, the centers of which are the displacement of the point M by the given vectors.
GeoGebra construction
Steps
- Given two parallel lines and a point lying between them.
- We will solve the problem using circle inversion. First, we choose a reference circle, its center is the entered point, which will be displayed to infinity. This will make the solution circles appear as straight lines.
- In the circle inversion, we display the specified straight lines. They are displayed as a circle passing through the specified point.
- We construct the common tangents of both circles. These are images of solutions. There is a third common tangent passing through the specified point, but we are not interested in it.
- We display the common tangents in a circle inversion, thereby obtaining both solutions.
- The problem has two solutions.