Constructing a tangent ellipse

Geometry Level 5

You are given an ellipse (drawn in red), which is centered at ( 3 , 4 ) (3, 4) , and has its semi-axes congruent with the vectors ( 4 , 1 ) (4, 1) and ( 1.5 , 6 ) (-1.5, 6) . You are also given the two points (drawn in orange), F 1 = ( 20 , 4 ) F_1 = (20, 4) and F 2 = ( 5 , 15 ) F_2 = (5, 15) . Now you want to construct the ellipse that has F 1 F_1 and F 2 F_2 as its focii, and is tangent to the red ellipse. Find this ellipse (drawn in gray), and submit as your answer 10 ( x 1 + y 1 ) + 2 a \lfloor 10(x_1+y_1) \rfloor + \lfloor 2 a \rfloor , where ( x 1 , y 1 ) (x_1, y_1) is the tangency point between the two ellipses, and a a is the length of semi-major axis of the constructed ellipse, and \lfloor \cdot \rfloor is the floor function, for example, 3.7 = 3 \lfloor 3.7 \rfloor = 3 .


The answer is 157.

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