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A13. Points of tangency of an ellipse and a circle

Let E be the ellipse with equation x2/4 + y2 = 1 and C(r) be the circle with center (1,0) and radius r. For which values of r do the curves E and C(r) have point(s) of tangency?

This is fairly routine, but still a bit challenging to find all solutions.