Apollonius Problem

This investigation is based on the ancient Greek Apollonius Problem: Can you draw a circle that just touches three given circles? How many can you draw?

We tried this by hand and then on Geogebra following these instructions.

The maximum number of circles possible was unsolved for more than 2000 years, but we solved it! For the solutions and more see the links below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_Apollonius

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/ApolloniusProblem.html

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