. A red point is moving freely on its diameter, creating two tangent semicircles (green and cyan). The pink semicircle is internally tangent to the orange semicircle and tangent to both semicircles. We use the three centers to draw a black triangle. When the product of its inradius and its circumradius is equal to , the radius of the pink semicircle can be expressed as , where and are coprime positive integers. Find .
The diagram shows an orange semicircle with radius
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Let the centers of the unit, cyan, green, and pink semicircles be O , A , B , and C , their radii 1 , r 1 , r 2 , and r , Then r 1 + r 2 = 1 , O A = 1 − r 1 = r 2 , and O B = 1 − r 2 = r 1 .
Let diameters D E and F G through centers C and O respectively. By intersecting chords theorem ,
D C ⋅ C E r 2 ⟹ k 2 = F C ⋅ C G = ( 1 − k ) ( 1 + k ) = 1 − k 2 = 1 − r 2
Let ∠ C O B = θ . By cosine rule ,
{ B C 2 = O B 2 + O C 2 − 2 ⋅ O B ⋅ O C ⋅ cos θ C A 2 = O A 2 + O C 2 + 2 ⋅ O A ⋅ O C ⋅ cos θ { ( r 2 + r ) 2 = r 1 2 + ( 1 − r 2 ) − 2 r 1 1 − r 2 cos θ ( r 1 + r ) 2 = r 2 2 + ( 1 − r 2 ) + 2 r 2 1 − r 2 cos θ . . . ( 1 ) . . . ( 2 ) r 2 × ( 1 ) + r 1 × ( 2 ) : r 1 3 + r 2 3 + 2 ( r 1 2 + r 2 2 ) r + ( r 1 + r 2 ) r 2 ( r 1 + r 2 ) ( ( r 1 + r 2 ) 2 − 3 r 1 r 2 ) + 2 ( ( r 1 + r 2 ) 2 − 2 r 1 r 2 ) r + r 2 1 − 3 r 1 r 2 + 2 r − 4 r 1 r 2 r + r 2 r + r 2 ⟹ r = r 1 r 2 ( r 1 + r 2 ) + ( r 1 + r 2 ) ( 1 − r 2 ) = r 1 r 2 + 1 − r 2 Note that r 1 + r 2 = 1 = r 1 r 2 + 1 − r 2 = 2 r 1 r 2 + 2 r 1 r 2 r = 2 r 1 r 2
When the product of the inradius r i and the circumradius R of the △ A B C :
r i R r 1 + r 2 + r A ⋅ 4 A ( r 1 + r ) ( r 2 + r ) ( r 1 + r 2 ) r 1 + r 2 + r ( r 1 + r ) ( r 2 + r ) 9 2 5 ( r 1 r 2 + ( r 1 + r 2 ) r + r 2 ) 9 2 5 ( 2 r + r + r 2 ) 1 8 5 0 r 2 + 1 5 8 7 r − 1 1 8 8 ( 2 5 r − 1 2 ) ( 7 4 r + 9 9 ) ⟹ r = 1 8 5 0 2 9 7 = 1 8 5 0 2 9 7 = 9 2 5 5 9 4 = 5 9 4 ( 1 + r ) = 5 9 4 + 5 9 4 r = 0 = 0 = 2 5 1 2 where A is the area of the △ A B C . Since r > 0
Therefore p + q = 1 2 + 2 5 = 3 7 .