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Level: High School, SAT Prep, College geometry
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Problem 491: Square, Right Triangle, Incircle, Inscribed Circle, Radius
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ReplyDelete1) x = (a+b-c)/2 => AE = a/2 - x
2) from pythagore theorem
x = (-a + a√3)/4
Let the tangent from A to the nearest circle=z. We can now write the following equations immediately: 2z + 2r = a -----(1) and a^2=(z+3r)^2+(z+r)^2 -----(2) from which z can be eliminated to obtain: r=a(√3-1)/4
ReplyDeleteAjit
I'm missing something.... how do you get the 2z + 2r = a equation from?
ReplyDeleteIn any right angled triangle such as ABE, we've: AE+BE-AB=2*(In-radius) and hence in our notation: (z+r)+(z+3r)-a=2r or a=2z+2r.
ReplyDeleteAjit
How was BE found to be z+3r?
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