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Geometry Level 2

(PMO) In the figure, a quarter circle, a semicircle and a circle are mutually tangent inside a square of side length 2. Find the radius of the circle.

1 3 \frac{1}{3} 2 7 \frac{2}{7} 1 9 \frac{1}{9} 2 9 \frac{2}{9}

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1 solution

Chew-Seong Cheong
Oct 16, 2018

Let the radius of the cycle and semicircle be r r and r 1 r_1 and two heights a a and b b as shown in the figure. The radius of the quarter circle is 2. Then from the large right triangle and using Pythagorean theorem , we have:

( 2 + r 1 ) 2 ( 2 r 1 ) 2 = 2 2 8 r 1 = 4 r 1 = 1 2 \begin{aligned} (2+r_1)^2 - (2-r_1)^2 & = 2^2 \\ 8 r_1 & = 4 \\ \implies r_1 & = \frac 12 \end{aligned}

From the top right triangle:

( 2 + r ) 2 ( 2 r ) 2 = a 2 8 r = a 2 a = 2 2 r \begin{aligned} (2+r)^2 - (2-r)^2 & = a^2 \\ 8 r & = a^2 \\ \implies a & = 2\sqrt {2r} \end{aligned}

From the small right triangle:

( 1 2 + r ) 2 ( 1 2 + r ) 2 = b 2 2 r = b 2 b = 2 r \begin{aligned} \left(\frac 12+r\right)^2 - \left(\frac 12+r\right)^2 & = b^2 \\ 2r & = b^2 \\ \implies b & = \sqrt {2r} \end{aligned}

Since a + b = 2 a+b=2 ,

2 2 r + 2 r = 2 3 2 r = 2 9 ( 2 r ) = 4 r = 2 9 \begin{aligned} 2\sqrt{2r} + \sqrt{2r} & = 2 \\ 3\sqrt{2r} & = 2 \\ 9(2r) & = 4 \\ \implies r & = \boxed{\dfrac 29} \end{aligned}

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