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geometry senior
Problem
Circle has radius 5 and is centered at . Point lies outside such that . The two tangents to passing through are drawn, and points and are chosen on them (one on each tangent), such that line is tangent to and lies outside triangle . Compute given that .

Solution
Let , and denote the points of tangency of and with , respectively.
Then . By Pythagoras, . Now note that , which gives .
Then . By Pythagoras, . Now note that , which gives .
Final answer
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