Rhombus has side length with . Two dashed circles are inscribed in it, and two green circles and one yellow circle in turn are inscribed in the dashed circles, as shown. The rest of the four orange circles are tangent to both the rhombus and dashed circles.
If the radius of the dashed circles can be expressed as , where
input as your answer.
Note: The circles with common colors have the same radii.
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Let r o denote the radius of the orange circle and r g = k r o the radius of the green circle, where k > 0 .
Relation Between Orange and Green Circles
To prove that k = 2 , consider two circles at the corners of the rhombus:
Since both orange circles have the same radii, then the rectangles and the larger triangles (shared by the center of the large circles) are symmetric. By Pitot's Theorem , the indicated angles are both congruent. Noting that these 3 0 - 6 0 - 9 0 triangles are similar, we can determine the value of k by the following equation r o ⋅ csc ( 3 0 ∘ + r g + r o ) r g + r o = r g + 2 ⋅ r o ( r g + r o ) − r o which is k + 4 k + 1 = k + 2 k So we have r g = 2 r o .
Final Step
The final step is to compute the radius of the two dashed circles, which is easy to determine. In terms of r 's, the side length of the rhombus is r o cot ( 3 0 ∘ ) + r o tan ( 3 0 ∘ ) + 2 r o ( r o + r g ) ⋅ 2 where r o = 1 6 3 and r g = 8 3 . Since the radius of the dashed circle is r g + r o , its value is 1 6 3 3 , where a = 3 , b = 3 and c = 1 6 .
So a b c = 1 4 4