2006 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 16
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A circle of radius is tangent to a circle of radius . The sides of are tangent to the circles as shown, and the sides and are congruent. What is the area of ?
Solution 1
Let the centers of the smaller and larger circles be and , respectively. Let their tangent points to be and , respectively. We can then draw the following diagram:
We see that . Using the first pair of similar triangles, we write the proportion:
By the Pythagorean Theorem, we have .
Now using ,
Hence, the area of the triangle is
Solution 2
Since we have that .
Since we know that the total length of
We also know that , so
Also, since we have that
Since we know that and we have that
This equation simplified gets us
Let
By the Pythagorean Theorem on we have that
We know that , and so we have
Simplifying, we have that
Recall that .
Therefore,
Since the height is we have the area equal to
Thus our answer is .
~mathboy282
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