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 571. The perpendiculars from the angles A and B of a triangle on the opposite sides meet at D; the circles described round ADC and DBC cut AB or AB produced at the points E and F: shew that AE is equal to BF.

572. The four circles each of which passes through the centres of three of the four circles touching the sides of a triangle are equal to one another.

573. Four circles are described so that each may touch internally three of the sides of a quadrilateral: shew that a circle;may be described so as to pass through the centres of the four circles.

574. A circle is described round the triangle ABC, and from any point P of its circumference perpendiculars are drawn to BC, CA, AB, which meet the circle again at D, E, F: shew that the triangles ABC and DEF are equal in all respects, and that the straight lines AD, BE, CF are parallel.

575. With any point in the circumference of a given circle as centre, describe another circle, cutting the former at A and B; from B draw in the described circle a chord BD equal to its radius, and join AD, cutting the given circle at Q: shew that QD is equal to the radius of the given circle.

576. A point is taken without a square, such that straight lines being drawn to the angular points of the square, the angle contained by the two extreme straight lines is divided into three equal parts by the other two straight lines: shew that the locus of the point is the circumference of the circle circumscribing the square.

577. Circles are inscribed in the two triangles formed by drawing a perpendicular from an angle of a triangle on the opposite side; and analogous circles are described in relation to the two other like perpendiculars: shew that the sum of the diameters of the six circles together with the sum of the sides of the original triangle is equal to twice the sum of these perpendiculars.

578. Three concentric circles are drawn in the same plane: draw a straight line, such that one of its segments between the inner and outer circumference may be bisected at one of the points at which the straight lino meets the middle circumference.