Circles O 1 , O 2 , O 3 , O 4 intersect at points A 1 , B 1 , A 2 , B 2 , A 3 , B 3 , A 4 , B 4 , as shown above. Points A 1 , A 2 , A 3 , A 4 lie on a circle pictured above. Also, we are given that the circumradius of triangle B 1 B 2 B 3 is 5, and that the product of the lengths of the sides B 1 B 4 , B 3 B 4 , B 1 B 3 are all 40.
Find the area of triangle B 1 B 3 B 4 .
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I think "easily proved using inversion" is nontrivial enough you need to expand your thinking.
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There we go :D
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Even with "simple angle chasing" you need to show what's going on. Note that our standard here is not the same as writing a proof in a paper; someone is not knowing how to solve the problem, so they read the solution. I know the cyclic quad problem has been given alone where people are stumped how to do the angle chasing. It's not "hard" but you should still show the steps.
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The key to this problem is knowing that B 1 , B 2 , B 3 , B 4 is cyclic, which can be easily proved using inversion. Denote A k ′ to be the point which A k maps to after inversion.
Inverting through A 1 maps the two circles which include A 1 into two sides of a triangle with vertices B 1 ′ , A 2 ′ , A 4 ′ . Since this inversion must map the circumcircle of A 1 A 2 A 3 A 4 into a line, therefore, A 3 ′ must lie on line A 2 ′ A 4 ′ .
The two circles which include A 3 must then map into two circles which pass through ( A 2 ′ , A 3 ′ ) , ( A 3 ′ , A 4 ′ ) , respectively. The circles intersect lines A 1 A 2 ′ , A 1 A 4 ′ at B 2 ′ and B 4 ′ respectively, and intersect at B 3 ′ . By simple angle chasing, we can see that B 1 ′ B 2 ′ B 3 ′ B 4 ′ is a cyclic quadrilateral, therefore reinverting gives us the desired result.
This implies that the circumradius of the triangle B 1 B 3 B 4 is also 5.
And, the formula for the area of a triangle is given by
A r e a = 4 R A B C , where A B C denotes the product of the sides, and R denotes the circumradius.
Our answer is then ( 4 ) ( 5 ) 4 0 = 2 .