My semicircle

Geometry Level 3

The figure shows a semicircle of unit radius, with two chords A C AC and B D BD make an angle α \alpha with the diameter A B AB . If α = 3 0 \alpha = 30^\circ and the area of the green region A = π n 2 n A = \dfrac {\pi - \sqrt n}{2n} , where n n is an integer, find n n .


The answer is 3.

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Let the center of the circle be O O . Then O E \overline {OE} is perpendicular to A B \overline {AB} . Area of A O C \triangle {AOC} is 1 2 × 2 sin ( π 3 ) cos ( π 3 ) = 3 4 \dfrac{1}{2}\times 2\sin (\dfrac{π}{3})\cos (\dfrac{π}{3})=\dfrac{√3}{4} . Area of O E A \triangle {OEA} is 1 2 tan ( π 3 ) = 1 2 3 \dfrac{1}{2}\tan (\dfrac{π}{3})=\dfrac{1}{2√3} . Therefore, area of O E C \triangle {OEC} is 3 4 1 2 3 = 3 12 \dfrac{√3}{4}-\dfrac{1}{2√3}=\dfrac{√3}{12} . Let O E \overline {OE} extended meets the semicircle at F F . Then area of the sector O C F OCF is 1 2 × ( π 2 π 3 ) = π 12 \dfrac{1}{2}\times (\dfrac{π}{2}-\dfrac{π}{3})=\dfrac{π}{12} and the area of the region E C F ECF is π 3 12 \dfrac{π-√3}{12} , and hence the area of the region D E C DEC (the green region) is π 3 6 \dfrac{π-√3}{6} . Therefore n = 3 n=\boxed 3 .

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