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About the inscribed sphere and the exspheres of a $n$-dimensional simplex

Let us consider $n$-dimensional simplex $K$ in $n$-dimensional Euclidean space. Let $r_0$ be the radius of the inscribed sphere of $K$, and let be $r_1, r_2, \cdots, r_{n+1}$ be each radius of the exsphere of $K$.

Then, here is my question.

Question : How can we represent $r_0$ by $r_1, r_2, \cdots, r_{n+1}$?

Remark : This question has been asked previously on math.SE without receiving any answers.

Motivation : I've known the followings :

In the $n=2$ case, $$r_0=\frac{1}{\frac{1}{r_1}+\frac{1}{r_2}+\frac{1}{r_3}}.$$ In the $n=3$ case, $$r_0=\frac{2}{\frac{1}{r_1}+\frac{1}{r_2}+\frac{1}{r_3}+\frac{1}{r_4}}.$$

Then, I reached the following conjecture (of course, this is just a conjecture) : $$r_0=\frac{n-1}{\sum_{i=1}^{n+1}\frac{1}{r_i}}.$$

I don't have any good idea for $n$ in general. Can anyone help?

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