Central Region Area

Geometry Level 4

As shown above, five congruent circles are inscribed in a unit circle. The five circles surround a central region (shaded in yellow). Find the area A A of this central region, and report 1 0 4 A \lfloor 10^4 A \rfloor .


The answer is 2973.

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2 solutions

David Vreken
Dec 31, 2020

Label the points as follows:

Let the radius of the five congruent circles be r r , so that R T = R S = r RT = RS = r .

By symmetry, Q P T = 360 ° 10 = 36 ° \angle QPT = \frac{360°}{10} = 36° , and from right P R T \triangle PRT we have P R T = 54 ° \angle PRT = 54° , P R = r sec 54 ° PR = r \sec 54° , and P T = tan 54 ° PT = \tan 54° .

From P R + R S = P S PR + RS = PS we have r sec 54 ° + r = 1 r \sec 54° + r = 1 , which solves to r = 1 sec 54 ° + 1 r = \frac{1}{\sec 54° + 1} .

The central yellow region is A = 10 A P Q T = 10 ( A P R T A R Q T ) = 10 ( 1 2 r 2 tan 54 ° 54 360 π r 2 ) = ( 5 tan 54 ° 3 2 π ) r 2 A = 10A_{PQT} = 10(A_{\triangle PRT} - A_{RQT}) = 10(\frac{1}{2}r^2 \tan 54° - \frac{54}{360} \pi r^2) = (5 \tan 54° - \frac{3}{2}\pi)r^2 .

Substituting r = 1 sec 54 ° + 1 r = \frac{1}{\sec 54° + 1} into A = ( 5 tan 54 ° 3 2 π ) r 2 A = (5 \tan 54° - \frac{3}{2}\pi)r^2 gives 1 0 4 A = 2973 \lfloor 10^4 A \rfloor = \boxed{2973} .

Let the radius of the five congruent circles be r r . Join the centers of the five congruent circles with straight lines, we get a regular pentagon with side length of 2 r 2r .

From the figure we note that O P + P Q = O Q r sec 5 4 + r = 1 r = 1 1 + sec 5 4 OP+PQ = OQ \implies r \sec 54^\circ + r = 1 \implies r = \dfrac 1{1+\sec 54^\circ} .

Now consider one of the five congruent isosceles triangles that make up the pentagon. We note that one fifth of the yellow are is the area of O P R \triangle OPR minus 10 8 36 0 \dfrac {108^\circ}{360^\circ} of the area of circle of radius r r . Therefore the area of the yellow region:

A = 5 ( r 2 tan 5 4 108 360 π r 2 ) = 5 ( tan 5 4 108 360 π ) ( 1 + sec 5 4 ) 2 0.297315551092 A = 5\left(r^2 \tan 54^\circ - \frac {108}{360}\pi r^2\right) = \frac {5\left(\tan 54^\circ - \frac {108}{360}\pi \right)}{(1+\sec 54^\circ)^2} \approx 0.297315551092

Therefore 1 0 4 A = 2973 \lfloor 10^4A\rfloor = \boxed{2973} .

Solved it the same way, Chew-Seong......thanks for posting!

tom engelsman - 4 months ago

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