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You need to use the fact that if two circles touch then the line joining their centres goes through the point at which they touch. (Why is that?) Then join the centres of all the 'petals' to the centre of the inner circle and draw the hexagon formed by joining the centres of adjacent 'petals' as in the sketch. After that the proof depends on finding similar triangles.