Consider the cyclic quadrilateral with sides in that order. What is its circumdiameter? Let the answer be of the form . Find .
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Let the vertices be A , B , C , D where A B = 1 , B C = 4 , C D = 8 , D A = 7 . Reflect D over the angle bisector of A C to D ′ . Observe that D ′ is still on the circle. We also have C D ′ = 7 and A D ′ = 8 . Consider quadrilateral A B C D ′ . We know that A D ′ 2 + A B 2 = C D ′ 2 + B C 2 = 6 5 which implies that they must be right triangles. This further implies that the diameter must be the square root of the sum which is 6 5 .