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Problem
Triangle has , , and . Point is on , and bisects the right angle. The inscribed circles of and have radii and , respectively. What is ?
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Solution
We start by finding the length of and as in solution 1. Using the angle bisector theorem, we see that and . Using Stewart's Theorem gives us the equation , where is the length of . Solving gives us , so . Call the incenters of triangles and and respectively. Since is an incenter, it lies on the angle bisector of . Similarly, lies on the angle bisector of . Call the point on tangent to , and the point tangent to . Since and are right, and , . Then, . We now use common tangents to find the length of and . Let , and the length of the other tangents be and . Since common tangents are equal, we can write that , and . Solving gives us that . Similarly, . We see now that
Final answer
E