Square has two touching circles--a red circle having a radius of 3 and an orange circle having a radius of 6--which are both tangent to line segment that is parallel to side Line segment goes through the three points of tangency and divides in half.
If line segment PC is tangent to the orange circle, what is the radius of the blue circle inscribed in triangle
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Let O be the center of the orange circle. Then, since the side length of the square is 2 ( 6 + 3 ) = 1 8 ,
tan ( ∠ O C S ) = 9 6 = 3 2 ⟹ ∠ O C S = tan − 1 ( 3 2 ) .
Now as P C is tangent to the orange circle we see that ∠ P C O = ∠ O C S = θ , and thus
∠ P C N = 2 π − 2 θ ⟹ tan ( ∠ P C N ) = cot ( 2 θ ) = tan ( 2 θ ) 1 .
Now tan ( 2 θ ) = 1 − tan 2 ( θ ) 2 tan ( θ ) = 1 − ( 3 2 ) 2 2 × 3 2 = 5 1 2 .
Next, ∣ P N ∣ = 1 2 tan ( ∠ P C N ) = 1 2 × 5 1 2 1 = 5 ,
so Δ P C N is a 5 / 1 2 / 1 3 right triangle, and thus the inradius is 5 + 1 2 + 1 3 5 × 1 2 = 2 .