Circle-ception

Geometry Level 2

A quadrant of a circle of radius 10 10 has a circle inscribed in it - its diameter can be written as a ( b c ) a\left( \sqrt { b } -c \right) in fully factorised form, where b b is square free and a a , b b and c c are integers.

Find the value of a 2 b 2 c 2 a + b + c . \large\left\lfloor \frac { { a }^{ 2 }{ b }^{ 2 }{ c }^{ 2 } }{ a+b+c } \right\rfloor.


The answer is 69.

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3 solutions

Michael Fuller
Apr 24, 2015

The two points where the circle tangentially touches the quadrant's sides must be the same distance away from the top left corner. So a right isosceles triangle can be formed.

Let the radius of the incircle be x x . As shown by the first diagram, the right isosceles triangle has legs x x and therefore hypotenuse x 2 x\sqrt { 2 } . In the second diagram, we see that x 2 + x = 10 x\sqrt { 2 }+x =10 (the radius of the quadrant).

x + x 2 = 10 x ( 1 + 2 ) = 10 x = 10 1 + 2 x+x\sqrt { 2 } =10\\ x(1+\sqrt { 2 } )=10\\ x=\frac { 10 }{ 1+\sqrt { 2 } }

As the diameter of the circle is 2 x 2x , it is equal to 20 1 + 2 \frac { 20 }{ 1+\sqrt { 2 } } , which after the denominator is rationalised comes to 20 2 20 20 ( 2 1 ) 20\sqrt { 2 } -20\equiv 20(\sqrt { 2 } -1) . So a = 20 a=20 , b = 2 b=2 , c = 1 c=1 .

20 2 × 2 2 × 1 2 20 + 2 + 1 = 1600 23 = 69 + 13 23 = 69 \left\lfloor \frac { { 20 }^{ 2 }\times { 2 }^{ 2 }\times { 1 }^{ 2 } }{ 20+2+1 } \right\rfloor =\left\lfloor \frac { 1600 }{ 23 } \right\rfloor =\left\lfloor 69+\frac { 13 }{ 23 } \right\rfloor =\boxed { 69 }

nice problem but don't you think if the main aim of this problem was to find the radius of the circle inside, you could have asked just asked a+b+c instead of a largest integer function...just a minor point rather

Arnav Das - 6 years, 1 month ago

The value is 69.56 approx.

If you round it off, the answer should be 70

Vasudev Chandna - 6 years, 1 month ago

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We are dealing with floor functions here.

Jun Arro Estrella - 6 years, 1 month ago

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Correct. 69.56 = 69 \left\lfloor 69.56 \right\rfloor =69 because it is the greatest integer that is less than or equal to x. If the answer was 70 70 , I would have asked for the nearest integer, or the ceiling function (the smallest integer that is greater than or equal to x): 69.56 = 70 \left\lceil 69.56 \right\rceil =70 .


More on floor/ceiling functions here .

Michael Fuller - 6 years, 1 month ago

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@Michael Fuller It was Vasudev who raised that problem not me. I know the concept of the floor function. :)

Jun Arro Estrella - 6 years, 1 month ago

@Michael Fuller Thanks for the link, I had never heard of floor functions before!

Vasudev Chandna - 6 years, 1 month ago

Oh, I'm sorry I don't know what floor function is.

Pardon

Vasudev Chandna - 6 years, 1 month ago

Awesome answer...

Satyam Bhardwaj - 6 years, 1 month ago

awesome solution (y)

Sanjoy Roy - 6 years, 1 month ago

Exactly Same Method

Kushagra Sahni - 5 years, 8 months ago

It is a bit unclear that the sign meant floor function.

Shivank Mehra - 5 years, 5 months ago
Appan Rakaraddi
May 11, 2015

Assume a chord is drawn from point of the right angle R through centre of the circle and it meets the circle at point P and Q and the tangent from the point R meets at T, then RP.RQ=RT^2. If radius is x, then RT =x, RQ=10 and RP=10-2x; Hence 10*{10-2x}=x^2 or x=10{2^0.5 -1 }

William Isoroku
Apr 27, 2015

r + r 2 = 10 r+r\sqrt{2}=10 , r r is the radius of the inscribed circle.

Solve for r r and multiply by 2 to find the diameter.

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