## Malfatti's Tangent Triangle Problem

Draw within a given Triangle three Circles, each of which is Tangent to the other two and to two sides of the Triangle. Denote the three Circles so constructed , , and . Then is tangent to and , is tangent to and , and is tangent to and .

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