SOLUTION: Two circles of equal radii touch each other at point D(p,p).Centre A of the one circle lies on the Y-axis.Point B(8,7) is the centre of the other circle.FDE is a common tangent to
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Question 800179: Two circles of equal radii touch each other at point D(p,p).Centre A of the one circle lies on the Y-axis.Point B(8,7) is the centre of the other circle.FDE is a common tangent to both circles..How to calculate the co-ordinates of D when only given a centre with no radius?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Looking at them from some point of view, the circles must look like this:
Point D is at the same distance from the center of both circles, and on the line that connects those centers.
It is the midpoint of segment AB.
Its x-coordinate is the average of the x-coordinates of A and B
The x-coordinate of B(8,7) is
We know that the x-coordinate of A is zero, because for all points on the y-axis and A is on the y-axis. So
So, the x-coordinate of D(p,p) is ,
meaning that .
Since it is written as D(p,p), with the same as x and y-coordinate, it must be D(4,4).
For A(0,), that would mean that ,
and from we get
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Also, the radius of the circles is the distance from B(8,7) to D(4,4).
That is
Now, I could draw those circles, with the x- and y-axes, the line connecting their centers, and the common tangent to both circles.
The slope of AB is
The tangent to both circles is perpendicular to AB, so its slope is
.
The tangent passes through D(4,4) so its equation is
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We could also write it differently:
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