Overlapping Solids

Geometry Level 5

Solid A A is a prism with a regular enneadecagonal base of sidelength s s and a height of 4 4 , while solid B B is a torus of major radius 2 2 and minor radius 4 π \frac{4}{\pi} . Place solids A A and B B in space such that the following conditions hold:

  • The center of solid B B is on a vertex of solid A A
  • Parts of solid A A and solid B B overlap, and the volume of overlap is maximized

Given that the volume of the part of solid A A not in solid B B is equal to the volume of the part of solid B B not in solid A A , find s s .


The answer is 0.7497266561.

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1 solution

Mark Hennings
Jan 17, 2018

The orientation of the torus is irrelevant. We are told that the volumes of A B A \cap B' and A B A' \cap B are equal. Adding the volume of A B A \cap B to each of these, this means that the volumes of A A and B B are equal. Since the volume of the enneadecagonal prism A A is 4 × 19 × 1 2 × s × s 2 tan π 19 = 19 s 2 cot π 19 4 \times 19 \times \tfrac12 \times s \times \frac{s}{2\tan\frac{\pi}{19}} \; = \; 19s^2 \cot\tfrac{\pi}{19} and the volume of the torus B B is 2 π 2 × 2 × ( 4 π ) 2 = 64 2\pi^2 \times 2 \times \big(\tfrac{4}{\pi}\big)^2 \; = \; 64 we deduce that s = 64 19 tan π 19 = 0.7497266561 s \; = \; \sqrt{\tfrac{64}{19}\tan\tfrac{\pi}{19}} \; = \; \boxed{0.7497266561}

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