A circle inscribed in a trapezoid; $\angle BCH$

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$ABCD: AB ||CD, AB>CD, AD=BC$

$k(O)$ inscribed

$DH \bot AB,H \in AB$ and $\angle ADC = \gamma$


$\angle BHC, \angle BCH =$ ?

I have tried to show that $\triangle BCH$ is isosceles, but when I made the diagram, I noticed that it isn't. $\angle ADC = \angle DCB = \gamma$, thus $\angle DAB = \angle ABC = 180^\circ - \gamma$. I'm not sure what to do now.

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The lengths of the tangents from one point to a circle are equal (due to symmetry you have congruent triangles). Let's call $A'$ the point where the circle is tangent to $AB$, $B'$ the point where the circle is tangent to $BC$ and so on. Then $$A'B=\frac 12 AB=BB'$$ Similarly $$B'C=CC'=\frac 12 CD=C'D$$ Since $A'C'$ is perpendicular to both $AB$ and $CD$, and $AB||CD$, and $DH\perp AB$, you got that $HA'C'D$ is a rectangle, so $$HA'=C'D$$ From these equations $$HB=HA'+A'B=C'D+A'B=B'C+BB'=BC$$ Therefore $\triangle HBC$ is isosceles ($HB=BC$), and $\angle BHC=\angle BCH$.

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One of the properties of tangential trapezoid is that sum of the bases is equal to sum of the legs. See Pitot theorem. So $AB+CD=2BC$, $\frac{AB}{2}+\frac{CD}{2}=BC$. But it's easy to see that $\frac{AB}{2}+\frac{CD}{2}=HB$.