A Geometery

Geometry Level 3

AB is a sector of a sixth of a circle

The circle is inscribed to it

What is the ratio of the pink area to the yellow area?

If your answer is a / b a/b , enter a+b

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The answer is 3.

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1 solution

Let O O be the center of the pink circle, C C be the center of the yellow circle and P P be the point of tangency of the yellow circle to radial segment O B OB . Also, let the radius O B OB of the pink circle be R R .

Letting the radius C P CP of the yellow circle be r r , we have that triangle Δ O C P \Delta OCP is a right triangle with C O P = 3 0 \angle COP = 30^{\circ} and hypotenuse O C = R r OC = R - r . Therefore

sin ( 3 0 ) = r R r 1 2 = r R r R r = 2 r R r = 3 \sin(30^{\circ}) = \frac{r}{R - r} \Longrightarrow \frac{1}{2} = \frac{r}{R - r} \Longrightarrow R - r = 2r \Longrightarrow \frac{R}{r} = 3 .

Now the yellow area is π r 2 \pi r^{2} and the pink area is 1 2 R 2 π 3 π r 2 \frac{1}{2}*R^{2}*\frac{\pi}{3} - \pi r^{2} , and thus the ratio of the pink area to the yellow area is

1 2 R 2 π 3 π r 2 π r 2 = 1 6 ( R r ) 2 1 = 3 2 6 1 = 1 2 \dfrac{\frac{1}{2}*R^{2}*\frac{\pi}{3} - \pi r^{2}}{\pi r^{2}} = \frac{1}{6}*(\frac{R}{r})^{2} - 1 = \frac{3^{2}}{6} - 1 = \frac{1}{2} .

Thus a + b = 1 + 2 = 3 a + b = 1 + 2 = \boxed{3} .

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