Find the yellow angle?

Geometry Level 3

Find the yellow angle?- interesting geometry puzzle Find the yellow angle?- interesting geometry puzzle

In the figure two rays are tangent to the circle at the point where the quarter circle meets the circle. Find the angle marked yellow?

6 0 60^\circ 4 5 45^\circ It isn't a constant. 3 0 30^\circ

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2 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Jan 23, 2020

Let the center of the quarter circle be C C and its radius be 1. Let the rays tangent to the circle at A A and B B . Then the perpendiculars at A A and B B meet at the center O O of the circle. Then O A = O B = r OA = OB = r , the radius of the circle. Let A C B = θ \angle ACB = \theta . Let O D OD be perpendicular to the right side of the square then:

O D + O C × cos 4 5 = 1 r + cos 4 5 cos θ 2 = 1 tan θ 2 + 1 2 cos θ 2 = 1 Multiply both sides by 2 cos θ 2 2 sin θ 2 + 1 = 2 cos θ 2 2 ( 1 2 cos θ 2 1 2 sin θ 2 ) = 1 cos ( θ 2 + 4 5 ) = 1 2 θ 2 + 4 5 = 6 0 θ = 3 0 \begin{aligned} OD + OC \times \cos 45^\circ & = 1 \\ r + \frac {\cos 45^\circ}{\cos \frac \theta 2} & = 1 \\ \tan \frac \theta 2 + \frac 1{\sqrt 2 \cos \frac \theta 2} & = 1 & \small \blue{\text{Multiply both sides by }\sqrt 2\cos \frac \theta 2} \\ \sqrt 2 \sin \frac \theta 2 + 1 & = \sqrt 2 \cos \frac \theta 2 \\ 2 \left(\frac 1{\sqrt 2}\cos \frac \theta 2 - \frac 1{\sqrt 2} \sin \frac \theta 2 \right) & = 1 \\ \cos \left(\frac \theta 2 + 45^\circ \right) & = \frac 12 \\ \frac \theta 2 + 45^\circ & = 60^\circ \\ \implies \theta & = \boxed{30^\circ} \end{aligned}

Let the radius of the quarter circle be a a and that of the full circle be b b . Then a 2 + b 2 = 2 ( a b ) 2 a^2+b^2=2(a-b)^2 or a 2 4 a b + b 2 = 0 a^2-4ab+b^2=0 . This yields b a = 2 3 \dfrac{b}{a}=2-√3 (since b < a b<a ). Thus half of the required angle is tan 1 ( b a ) = tan 1 ( 2 3 ) = 15 ° \tan^{-1} (\dfrac{b}{a})=\tan^{-1} {(2-√3)}=15\degree and hence the required angle is 30 ° \boxed {30\degree}

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