Given the quadrilateral and inscribed circle, what is the missing side length?
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Doesn't AD = 5? Isn't that what is given? Or am I reading it wrong?
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The diagram in the problem would correspond to A D = ? and B C = 6 .
The solution is more general in that it shows the opposite sides must sum to the same length.
Let x be the missing side.
By the pitot's theorem , we have
6 + x = 5 + 8
6 + x = 1 3
x = 1 3 − 6 = 7
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Let X + Y = 5, and M + Y = 6. Then it becomes obvious that Y = 1. Then the rest follows
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By the property of tangent lines to circles, we have:
∣ A P ∣ = ∣ A S ∣ , ∣ B P ∣ = ∣ B Q ∣ , ∣ C Q ∣ = ∣ C R ∣ , ∣ D R ∣ = ∣ D S ∣ .
Thus, we must have A D + B C = A B + D C ; in other words, the opposite sides must sum to the same length. Thus, A D + 6 = 8 + 5 , so A D = 7 .