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Collinearity in tangential pentagon [closed]

I am looking for a proof of the following claim: Given tangential pentagon. Touching point of the incircle and the side of the pentagon,the vertex opposite to that side and the intersection point of ...
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The product of the lengths of two line segments that belong to Newton line [closed]

I am looking for the proof of the following claim: Consider a family of bicentric quadrilaterals with the same inradius length and the same distance between incenter and circumcenter. Denote by $P$ ...
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Principal diagonals of octagon meet in a single point

Can you provide a proof for the following claim: Claim. Given octagon circumscribed about an ellipse. If the vertices of the octagon lie on another ellipse then its principal diagonals meet in a ...
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Equal sums of line segments

I would like to see a proof of the following Claim. Let $A_1,A_2,A_3,A_4,A_5$ be vertices of bicentric pentagon. Let $B_1$ be the intersection point of $A_1A_3$ and $A_2A_5$, $B_2$ the intersection ...
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Necessary and sufficient condition for quadrilateral to be cyclic

Can you provide a proof for the following proposition: Proposition. Given any quadrilateral $ABCD$. Let $P,Q,R,S$ be nine-point centers of triangles $\triangle ABD$,$\triangle ABC$,$\triangle BCD$ ...
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Collinearity of three significant points of bicentric pentagon

Can you provide a proof for the following claim? Claim. Given bicentric pentagon. Consider the triangle whose sides are two diagonals drawn from the same vertex and side of pentagon opposite from ...
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Collinearity in bicentric polygons

Can you provide a proofs for the following two claims? Claim 1. The circumcenter, the incenter, and the intersection of the principal diagonals in a bicentric even-sided polygon are collinear. Claim ...
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Necessary and sufficient condition for tangential polygon to be cyclic

Can you prove or disprove the following claim? Claim. Let $A_1,A_2, \ldots ,A_n$ be the vertices of an $n$-sided tangential polygon and let $B_1,B_2, \ldots ,B_n$ be the contact points of the ...
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A generalization of Harcourt's theorem

This question is closely related to my previous question. Can you prove the claim given below? The following claim is a conjectured generalization of Harcourt's theorem. Claim. Let $A_1,A_2 \ldots ...
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A formula for the area of bicentric quadrilateral

Can you provide a proof for the claim given below? The following claim is inspired by Harcourt's theorem and can be seen as its generalization to quadrilaterals. Claim. Given bicentric quadrilateral $...
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