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A C E D A ACEDA is a semicircle centered at B B and B F = E G = E F = B G BF=EG=EF=BG . What is the measure of D A C \angle DAC in degrees?


The answer is 52.5.

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Guy Fox
Aug 13, 2018

@Guy Fox , you have to mention that the answer should be in degree. Also B F E G BFEG is a square. B F = F E = E G = B G BF=FE=EG=BG can be a parallelogram.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 2 years, 10 months ago

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I just added degree and right angle symbol

Guy Fox - 2 years, 10 months ago
Chew-Seong Cheong
Aug 14, 2018

Let the radius of the semicircle be 1, then we note that B E = 1 BE=1 and B F = BF= E G = EG= E F = EF= B G = BG = sin 4 5 = \sin 45^\circ = 1 2 \frac 1{\sqrt 2} . By sine rule , we have

sin B D G B G = sin D G B B D sin B D G 1 2 = sin 4 5 1 = 1 2 sin B D G = 1 2 B D G = 3 0 \begin{aligned} \frac {\sin \angle BDG}{BG} & = \frac {\sin \angle DGB}{BD} \\ \frac {\sin \angle BDG}{\frac 1{\sqrt 2}} & = \frac {\sin 45^\circ}{1} = \frac 1{\sqrt 2} \\ \sin \angle BDG & = \frac 12 \\ \implies \angle BDG & = 30^\circ \end{aligned}

D B A = B D G + D G B = 3 0 + 4 5 = 7 5 \implies \angle DBA = \angle BDG + \angle DGB = 30^\circ + 45^\circ = 75^\circ and D A C = 18 0 D B A 2 = 18 0 7 5 2 = 52.5 \angle DAC = \dfrac {180^\circ - \angle DBA}2 = \dfrac {180^\circ - 75^\circ}2 = \boxed{52.5}^\circ .

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