I'm Luigi!! Number one!!

Geometry Level 3

Luigi is in Bowser's Castle and he's in triangular room with sides 6, 8 and 10. The princess is at point P inside the triangle (not on the border) such that the distance between P and each side is an integer number. How many position can the princess occupies?


The answer is 3.

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2 solutions

Drop TheProblem
Oct 30, 2014

Consider the triangle in the cartesian plane with A ( 0 ; 0 ) A(0;0) , B ( 8 ; 0 ) B(8;0) and C ( 0 ; 6 ) C(0;6) .

The equation of the the line which pass throught B and C is 3 x + 4 y 24 = 0 3x+4y-24=0

Call P ( x 0 ; y 0 ) P(x_{0};y_{0}) a point inside the triangle with x 0 x_{0} and y 0 y_{0} integer so that the distance from AB and AC satisfy the problem.

The distance between P and the line BC is d = 3 x 0 + 4 y 0 24 3 2 + 4 2 d=\frac {|3x_{0}+4y_{0}-24|}{\sqrt{3^2+4^2}} .

At this point we have to find all the points P ( x 0 ; y 0 ) P(x_{0};y_{0}) so that also d = 3 x 0 + 4 y 0 24 5 d=\frac {|3x_{0}+4y_{0}-24|}{5} is an integer.

There are only 3 \boxed{3} solutions (after having tried all the few points inside the triangle) which are X ( 5 ; 1 ) X(5;1) , Y ( 2 ; 2 ) Y(2;2) and Z ( 1 ; 4 ) Z(1;4) .

You've posted this problem twice.

Satvik Golechha - 6 years, 5 months ago

the triangle will be a right angle triangle with the hypotenuse 10 . let , the equation of the hypotenuse be 8x+6y=48 or 6x+8y=48 . sorry ! it seems to be uncomfortable to explain further . the only thing i can say that is i have used co-ordinate geometry formulae .

Yes, that's an intuitive and easy way to solve it.

Drop TheProblem - 6 years, 8 months ago

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