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The Locus of centers of the circles, possessing the same area and having and as their common tangent, is
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Given,
and are common tangent,
Now the given lines are parallel tangents to a circle,
So, the diameter of the circle is equal to the distance between these lines,
So that the required radius is
The center of the circle lies on the line parallel to the given lines at a distance of from each of them.
So let the equation passing from center be
Then by distance between two parallel line formula we get, or
For , distance of from the other line is also .
Thus the center lies on the line
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