Weird Arrangement?!

Geometry Level 3

Two congruent ellipses with the major axis 2 a 2a and the minor axis π \pi touch each other, the minor axis of each passing through the point of contact. l l is a common exterior tangent parallel to the minor axis. There are three congruent squares of side t t such that two of the squares have a side in common and another side lying on l l , and each has a vertex on one of the ellipses, and a third square has a vertex on each ellipse and a side that lies along a side of the first two squares.

Find the larger value of 5 t a \displaystyle \frac{5t}{a}


The answer is 1.

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Eric Scholz
Jun 10, 2019

Eyeballed it

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