My problems #8

Geometry Level 4

A square O A B C OABC is formed by line pairs x y = 0 xy=0 and x y + 1 = x + y xy+1=x+y where "O" is the origin .A circle With center C 1 C_1 inside the squre is drawn to touch the line pair x y = 0 xy=0 and another circle with center C 2 C_2 and radius twice that of C 1 C_1 ,is drawn to touch the circle C 1 C_1 and the other line pair.Find the radius of the circle With center C 1 C_1 .


The answer is 0.195.

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1 solution

Prakhar Gupta
Mar 16, 2015

Clearly the pair of lines formed by x y = 0 xy = 0 are x x axis and y y axis.

The second pair of lines is:- x y + 1 = x + y xy+1=x+y x y x y + 1 = 0 xy-x-y+1=0 ( x 1 ) ( y 1 ) = 0 (x-1)(y-1) =0 Hence the pair of lines by this equation is x = 1 x=1 and y = 1 y=1 .

Hence the square formed has side equal to 1 u n i t 1 unit .

Let radius of circle with center C 1 C_{1} is r r . Hence radius of circle with Center C 2 C_{2} is 2 r 2r .

From symmetry of square we can claim that C 1 C_{1} and C 2 C_{2} lie on the diagonal of the square. Looking at this diagonal we can the following equation:- 2 r + r + 2 r + 2 2 r = 2 \sqrt{2}r+r+2r+2\sqrt{2}r = \sqrt{2} 3 r + 3 2 = 2 3r+3\sqrt{2} = \sqrt{2} r = 2 2 3 r=\dfrac{2-\sqrt{2}}{3}

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