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What properties do the angles and lengths have here?
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Clearly, the yellow quadrilateral is a cyclic quadrilateral, so opposite angles add up to 180 degrees. The property about lengths is not so obvious. The other larger quadrilateral is called a tangential quadrilateral because all four of its sides are tangents to the circle. Have a go yourself at constructing part of this diagram.
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