Germanian Geometranian!

Geometry Level 5

Let points B B and C C lie on the circle with diameter A D AD and center O O on the same side of A D AD . The circumcircles of triangles A B O ABO and C D O CDO meet B C BC at points F F and E E respectively.

Find the radius of the given circle if A F = 10 AF = 10 and D E = 8 DE = 8 .


The answer is 8.944.

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2 solutions

First we can draw all the diagonals to the cyclic cuadrilaterals: O C \overline{OC} , O B \overline{OB} , B D \overline{BD} and A C \overline{AC} . Let A D E = α \angle{ADE}= \alpha , therefore we can use circle properties, from which:

O D B = O C B = O B C = O A F = α \angle{ODB}=\angle{OCB}=\angle{OBC}=\angle{OAF}=\alpha

And

O A C = D B C = O C A = β \angle{OAC}=\angle{DBC}=\angle{OCA}=\beta D O C = D E C = 2 β B D E = β \Rightarrow \angle{DOC} = \angle{DEC}=2\beta \Rightarrow \angle{BDE}=\beta

Therefore:

B F = E D = 10 A O C B E D \overline{BF}=\overline{ED}=10 \Rightarrow \bigtriangleup{AOC} \sim \bigtriangleup{BED}

And

C A F = A C F = O B D = O D B = α β \angle{CAF}=\angle{ACF}=\angle{OBD} = \angle{ODB}=\alpha-\beta O D B F A C \Rightarrow \bigtriangleup{ODB} \sim \bigtriangleup{FAC}

As those triangles are proportional to each other, we have:

r A C = 8 B D r B D = 10 A C \frac{r}{\overline{AC}}=\frac{8}{\overline{BD}} \wedge \frac{r}{\overline{BD}}=\frac{10}{\overline{AC}} r = 80 \Rightarrow r=\sqrt{80}

Alapan Das
Feb 18, 2019

Using circle laws we get 1.angle ABO=angle AFO=angle COD and 2.angle DCO=DEO=FOA .Then using triangle laws of trigonometry we get Sin(FOA)/Sin(AFO)=(AD/8)=(10/AD). This means AD²=8x10 .AD=square root of 80 ,which is 8.944

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