Family of circles

Geometry Level 4

The circle x 2 + y 2 = 8 x^{ 2 }+{ y }^{ 2 }=8 is cut by a series of circles all of which pass through the points ( 4 , 0 ) (4,0) and ( 0 , 6 ) (0,6) . The radius of the member of the family whose common chord with the circle x 2 + y 2 = 8 x^{ 2 }+{ y }^{ 2 }=8 passes through ( 12 , 4 ) (12,4) is R R . If R R is of the form a \sqrt { a } , then find a a .

a a is a square free positive integer.


The answer is 26.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Rohit Shah
Mar 19, 2015

Use family of circles to get a general equation for circle passing through the points Then find out the radical axis of the two circles which is the common chord. Now substitute the point

Did the same way!!

Ninad Akolekar - 6 years, 2 months ago

Log in to reply

me 2 but got wrong ...... ??????????????

Shivam Yaduvanshi - 6 years, 2 months ago

Log in to reply

Might have done a calculation mistake

Divyansh Chaturvedi - 5 years ago

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...