(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.
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Let the radius of the cycle and semicircle be r and r 1 and two heights a and 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 8 r 1 ⟹ r 1 = 2 2 = 4 = 2 1
From the top right triangle:
( 2 + r ) 2 − ( 2 − r ) 2 8 r ⟹ a = a 2 = a 2 = 2 2 r
From the small right triangle:
( 2 1 + r ) 2 − ( 2 1 + r ) 2 2 r ⟹ b = b 2 = b 2 = 2 r
Since a + b = 2 ,
2 2 r + 2 r 3 2 r 9 ( 2 r ) ⟹ r = 2 = 2 = 4 = 9 2