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Common Tangent Lines Quadrilateral Perimeter

2175ExpertCalculusCoordinate Geometry

Bulgarian Mathematical Competitions

Find all real numbers $a$ such that the graphs of the functions $x^{2}-2 a x$ and $-x^{2}-1$ have two common tangent lines and the perimeter of the quadrilateral with vertices at the tangent points is equal to $6$.
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