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A circle 'sits' on a right-angled triangle, touches two sides of
the triangle and has its centre on the hypotenuse of the triangle.
The circle has radius r and the triangle has sides of length x and
y.
Show that
$\frac{1}{r} = \frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y}.$