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Old June 30th, 2009, 09:54 AM
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Default Tangent spheres with triangle

I'm having trouble understanding this question, it may be out of my current knowledge base, but I won't know until I try.
I desire most a diagram to help me visualize the question. If you have a complete solution then leave it as a spoiler.

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Three spheres are tangent to a plane at the vertices of a triangle and tangent to each other. Find the radii of these spheres if the sides of the triangle are 6, 8, 10.

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Hi

Here is a view of 2 of the 3 spheres and the plan



One relation between the radii of the 2 spheres is
(x-y)²+a²=(x+y)² or 4xy=a²

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