is a 3-4-5 triangle with and chosen so that the three incircles are congruent. If is their radius, submit
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
Label by r 1 , r 2 and r 3 the radii of the incircles of △ A E D , △ E D B and △ B C E respectively. Let x = A D , y = A E , z = E B , w = E D . Then D B = 4 − x and E C = 5 − y . For the radii we have
r 1 = Semiperimeter of △ AED Area of △ AED = 2 1 ( x + y + w ) 2 1 A D ⋅ A E ⋅ sin A = 2 1 ( x + y + w ) 2 1 x y ⋅ 5 3 ( 1 )
Similarly,
r 2 = 2 1 ( 4 − x + w + z ) 2 1 ( 4 − x ) y ⋅ 5 3 a n d r 3 = 2 1 ( 5 − y + 3 + z ) 2 1 ⋅ 3 ( 5 − y ) ⋅ 5 4
By cosine rule on △ A E D ,
E D 2 = A D 2 + A E 2 − 2 A D ⋅ A E ⋅ cos A ⇒ w 2 = x 2 + y 2 − 2 x y ⋅ 5 4 By cosine rule on △ A E B ,
E B 2 = A E 2 + A B 2 − 2 A E ⋅ A B ⋅ cos A ⇒ z 2 = y 2 + 1 6 − 2 y ⋅ 4 ⋅ 5 4 Since r 1 = r 2 and r 1 = r 3 , we get a system of four equations in four variables:
x + y + w x x + y + w x y w 2 z 2 = 4 − x + w + z 4 − x = 8 − y + z 4 ( 5 − y ) = x 2 + y 2 − 5 8 x y = y 2 + 1 6 − 5 3 2 y
The solution of the system is x ≈ 2 . 1 8 3 5 0 1 2 8 3 7 9 1 7 9 7 0 3 y ≈ 3 . 2 9 7 3 9 5 1 4 9 7 6 7 6 6 2 8 2 z ≈ 2 . 4 0 1 9 7 5 3 9 8 5 4 1 4 3 0 8 3 w ≈ 2 . 0 2 9 9 5 2 2 5 6 0 2 3 1 0 0 3 4 0 Substituting in ( 1 ) we can find the (common) radius R of the three incircles: R ≈ 0 . 5 7 5 1 5 7 3 6 2 9 Hence, the answer is ⌊ 1 0 6 R ⌋ = 5 7 5 1 5 7 .