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Geometry Level 4

Let A B C ABC be an isosceles triangle with A B = A C = 5 AB=AC=5 and B C = 6 BC=6 .Consider the sequence of circles P 1 , P 2 , P 3 . . . . . . . P n P_1,P_2,P_3.......P_n Having centres at C 1 , C 2 , C 3 . . . . . . . . C n C_1,C_2,C_3........C_n .Just like given given above . Then the area of part excluding circle's area+Radius of second circle is:


The answer is 4.835.

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Chew-Seong Cheong
Jan 16, 2015

Inradius r r is given by: r = ( s a ) ( s b ) ( s c ) s \space r = \sqrt{\dfrac{(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)}{s}} , where a a , b b and c c are the side lengths of the triangle and s = a + b + c 2 s = \frac {a+b+c}{2} .

Therefore, the radius of circle centered C 1 C_1 :

r 1 = ( 8 6 ) ( 8 5 ) ( 8 5 ) 8 = 2 × 3 × 3 8 = 3 2 \quad r_1 = \sqrt{\dfrac{(8-6)(8-5)(8-5)}{8}} = \sqrt{\dfrac{2\times 3 \times 3}{8}} = \dfrac{3}{2}

We note that C 1 C_1 , C 2 C_2 and C 3 C_3 are aligned on a same straight line. They are incircles of similar triangles.

And we note that: r 2 r 1 = 4 2 r 1 4 = 1 4 \space \dfrac {r_2}{r_1} = \dfrac {4-2r_1}{4} = \dfrac {1}{4} .

Similarly, r 3 r 2 = 1 4 r 2 = 3 8 r 3 = 3 32 \space \dfrac {r_3}{r_2} = \dfrac {1}{4} \quad \Rightarrow r_2 = \dfrac {3}{8} \quad \Rightarrow r_3 = \dfrac {3}{32}

The required result:

1 2 × 6 × 4 π ( r 1 2 + r 2 2 + r 3 2 ) + r 2 \quad \frac {1}{2}\times 6 \times 4 - \pi (r_1^2+r_2^2+r_3^2) + r_2

= 12 π ( ( 3 2 ) 2 + ( 3 8 ) 2 + ( 3 32 ) 2 ) + 3 8 = 4.837 = 12 - \pi \left( (\frac {3}{2})^2 + (\frac {3}{8})^2 + (\frac {3}{32})^2 \right) + \frac {3}{8} = \boxed {4.837}

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