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The number of possible common tangents that can be drawn to the circles and is
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Two circles given are
Now compare with we get
Centre of circle is given by ,so gives the centre of first circle
Similarly , which gives centre of second circle.
Now,
(by using distance formula)
This is the case when a circle is touching another circle internally. So, there will be only one common tangent.
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