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Two identical circles and a smaller circle are tangent to the two chords and semicircle as shown.

The smaller circle is the largest possible circle that is tangent to the chord and semicircle.

Find the product of the length of the diameter of the semicircle and the length of the diameter of one of the larger inscribed circles, given that the diameter of the smallest circle is 1.


The answer is 208.

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1 solution

Valentin Duringer
Apr 23, 2020

Let's assume the radius of the big semi-circle is 1 \boxed{1}

  • We label BD as h \boxed{h}
  • By the pythagorean theorem we can then label DC as 4 h ² \boxed{\sqrt{4-h²}}
  • We label the diameter of the two big circles as x \boxed{x}
  • We label the diameter of the small circle as y \boxed{y}

  • Let's solve for the diameter x \boxed{x} of the big circles

    • By the product of chords theorem we can write the following equation : x ( 2 x ) = ( 4 h ² ) ² 2 ² \boxed{x(2-x)=\frac{\sqrt{(4-h²)²}}{2²}}
    • The diameter of a circle inscribed in a triangle is four times the area of the triangle divided by it's perimeter.
    • This give us the second equation: x = 2 h 4 h ² 2 + h + 4 h ² \boxed{x=\frac{2h\sqrt{4-h²}}{2+h+\sqrt{4-h²}}}
    • We then solve this system of equations and get x = 8 13 \boxed{x=\frac{8}{13}} and h = 10 13 \boxed{h=\frac{10}{13}}

Now we need to solve for the radius of the small circle

  • We again use the product of chords theorem to get the following equation : y ( 2 y ) = h ² 2 ² \boxed{y(2-y)=\frac{h²}{2²}}
  • We solve the equation and find y = 1 13 \boxed{y=\frac{1}{13}}

Since the value of y need to be 1 we calculate the value of x and the value of the diameter of the big semi-circle (D) using proportional relationships. We get x = 8 \boxed{x=8} and D = 26 \boxed{D=26}
Finally : 8 × 26 = 208 \boxed{8 \times 26=208}

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