Semi-Circles

Geometry Level 3

As shown in the figure, two externally tangent circles of radii R R and r r are internally tangent to a semicircle of diameter 2 2 . If R + r a ( b c ) R + r \le a(\sqrt b - c) , find ( a + 2 b + 3 c ) ! (a+2b+3c)! .


The answer is 362880.

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Well, if there was an equivalent to master chef for maths, i would be to classical and you would be the clever and immaginative one. I'll post a new problem soon maybe, we'll see how you solve it... -)

Valentin Duringer - 1 year ago

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thanks for your approbation... yeah waiting for it...

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year ago

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Time to go to work bro https://brilliant.org/problems/revenge-of-the-progressive-sangaku/?ref_id=1592842

Valentin Duringer - 1 year ago

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@Valentin Duringer XD! thanks for sharing...

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year ago
Valentin Duringer
May 31, 2020

First, we need to express R \boxed{R} in terms of r \boxed{r} . We draw 3 right triangles, a pink one, a blue one and a green one

  • The blue triangle gives us this equation with the pythagorean theorem : ( R + r ) ² = ( R r ) ² + ( a + b ) ² \boxed{(R+r)²=(R-r)²+(a+b)²}
  • The green triangle gives us this equation with the pythagorean theorem : ( 1 R ) ² = R ² + b ² \boxed{(1-R)²=R²+b²}
  • The pink triangle gives us this equation with the pythagorean theorem : ( 1 r ) ² = r ² + a ² \boxed{(1-r)²=r²+a²}
  • Next, we use the second and the third equation to express a \boxed{a} and b \boxed{b} in terms of r \boxed{r} and R \boxed{R} . Then we use substitution in the first equation to get an equation only in terms of R \boxed{R} and r \boxed{r} .
  • The first equation becomes : 2 R r = 1 r R + ( 1 2 r ) ( 1 2 R \boxed{2Rr=1-r-R+\sqrt{(1-2r)(1-2R}}
  • Now we express R \boxed{R} in terms of r \boxed{r} and get : R = 2 r ² + 2 2 r ² 2 r 3 + 3 r 4 r ² + 4 r + 1 \boxed{R=\frac{-2r²+2\sqrt{2}\sqrt{r²-2r^{3}}+3r}{4r²+4r+1}}
  • We can now use this fonction to express the sum R + r \boxed{R+r} in terms of r \boxed{r} :
  • f ( r ) = r + 2 r ² + 2 2 r ² 2 r 3 + 3 r 4 r ² + 4 r + 1 \boxed{f(r)=r+\frac{-2r²+2\sqrt{2}\sqrt{r²-2r^{3}}+3r}{4r²+4r+1}}
  • Now set the derivative equal to 0 to find for which value of r, the function is maximum, we find r = 2 1 \boxed{r=\sqrt{2}-1}
  • Finally we calculate f ( 2 1 ) = 2 ( 2 1 ) \boxed{f(\sqrt{2}-1)=2(\sqrt{2}-1)} so a = 2 \boxed{a=2} , b = 2 \boxed{b=2} , c = 1 \boxed{c=1}
  • Then, ( 2 + 2 × 2 + 3 × 1 ) ! = 362880 \boxed{(2+2 \times 2+3 \times 1)! =362880}

Nice approach!

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year ago

Thanks. Well that's the only "rigorous" approach i could figure out...I wonder what are the others...

Valentin Duringer - 1 year ago

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I'll provide mine...

nibedan mukherjee - 1 year ago

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