2014 AIME I Problems/Problem 10
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[hide]Problem 10
A disk with radius is externally tangent to a disk with radius . Let be the point where the disks are tangent, be the center of the smaller disk, and be the center of the larger disk. While the larger disk remains fixed, the smaller disk is allowed to roll along the outside of the larger disk until the smaller disk has turned through an angle of . That is, if the center of the smaller disk has moved to the point , and the point on the smaller disk that began at has now moved to point , then is parallel to . Then , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find .
Solution 1
Let be the new tangency point of the two disks. The smaller disk rolled along minor arc on the larger disk.
Let , in radians. The smaller disk must then have rolled along an arc of length , since the larger disk has a radius of . Since all of the points on major arc on the smaller disk have come into contact with the larger disk at some point during the rolling, and none of the other points on the smaller disk did,.
Since , so the angles of minor arc and minor arc are equal, so minor arc has an angle of . Since the smaller disk has a radius of , the length of minor arc is . This means that equals the circumference of the smaller disk, so , or .
Now, to find , we construct . Also, drop a perpendicular from to , and call this point . Since and is right, and
Now drop a perpendicular from to , and call this point . Since , and Thus, we know that and by using the Pythagorean Theorem on , we get that Thus, so and our answer is .
Solution 2
First, we determine how far the small circle goes. For the small circle to rotate completely around the circumference, it must rotate times (the circumference of the small circle is while the larger one has a circumference of ) plus the extra rotation the circle gets for rotating around the circle, for a total of times. Therefore, one rotation will bring point from .
Now, draw , and call We know that is 6, and is 1. Since ,
By the Law of Cosines, and since lengths are positive,
By the Law of Sines, we know that so As is clearly between and , is positive. As ,
Now we use the angle sum formula to find the sine of :
Finally, we square this to get so our answer is .
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