Incircle of Triangle

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Incircle of Triangle

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Summary Geometry Inscribed and Circumscribed Figures
Example Problems

Summary Edit

A circle is inscribed in the triangle if the triangle's three sides are all tangents to a circle.
In this situation the circle is called an inscribed circle, and its center is called the inner
center, or incenter.

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Since the triangle's three sides are all tangents to the inscribed circle, the circle's
distance from the three sides are all equal to the circle's radius. Thus in the diagram
above,
where denotes the radius of the inscribed circle.

Also, since triangles and share as a side,

and they are in RHS congruence.
Therefore Using the same method, we can also deduce
and

Another important property of circumscribed triangles is that we can think of the area of
as the sum of the areas of triangles and Since
the three triangles each have one side of as the base, and as the height, the
area of can be expressed as

In conclusion, the three essential properties of a circumscribed triangle are:

The segments from the incenter to each vertex bisects each angle.

The distances from the incenter to each side are equal to the inscribed circle's
radius.

The area of the triangle is equal to

where is the inscribed circle's radius.

Example Problems Edit

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In the above diagram, circle of radius 3 is inscribed in If the perimeter

of is 30, what is the area of

The area of a circumscribed triangle is given by the formula:

where is the inscribed circle's radius. Therefore the answer is

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In the above diagram, circle is inscribed in where the points of contact

are and If and what is the perimeter
of

Since the circle is inscribed in we have

Therefore, the perimeter of is

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In the above diagram, point is the incenter of If and

what is

Since is the incenter of , we know that

Since the three angles of a triangle sum up to we have

Thus, the answer is

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In the above diagram, circle is inscribed in triangle If

what is

Drawing an adjoint segment gives the diagram below:

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Now we know that

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In the above diagram, point is the incenter of The line segment

passes through and is parallel to If and what is
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Since is the incenter of and is parallel to and

are isosceles triangles. Thus, and

Then, we have

Thus, the answer is