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tony123

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Registered: 2007-08-03

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In an acute-angled

In an acute-angled triangle ABC, a tangent is drawn to the inscribed circle, parallel to side BC. The tangent intersects side AC at point D. F is the orthogonal projection of point D onto the side BC. Show that AB=AD+BF

Bob

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Registered: 2010-06-20

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Re: In an acute-angled

hi tony123

Thanks for another interesting puzzle.

Bob

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