2022 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 15
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Quadrilateral with side lengths is inscribed in a circle. The area interior to the circle but exterior to the quadrilateral can be written in the form where and are positive integers such that and have no common prime factor. What is
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Solution 1 (Inscribed Angle Theorem)
Opposite angles of every cyclic quadrilateral are supplementary, so We claim that We can prove it by contradiction:
- If then and are both acute angles. This arrives at a contradiction.
- If then and are both obtuse angles. This arrives at a contradiction.
By the Inscribed Angle Theorem, we conclude that is the diameter of the circle. So, the radius of the circle is
The area of the requested region is Therefore, the answer is
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Solution 2 (Brahmagupta‘s Formula)
When we look at the side lengths of the quadrilateral we see and which screams out because of Pythagorean triplets. As a result, we can draw a line through points and to make a diameter of See Solution 1 for a rigorous proof.
This can also be shown using the Law of Cosines: Since and it follows that
Since the diameter is we can see the area of the circle is just from the formula of the area of the circle with just a diameter.
Then we can use Brahmagupta Formula where are side lengths, and is semi-perimeter to find the area of the quadrilateral.
You can find the answer to this quickly by noting that . So now the area of the region we are trying to find is
Therefore, the answer is
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Solution 3 (Circumradius's Formula)
We can guess that this quadrilateral is actually made of two right triangles: has a ratio in the side lengths, and is a triangle. (See Solution 1 for a proof.)
Next, we can choose one of these triangles and use the circumradius formula to find the radius. Let's choose the triangle. The area of the triangle is equal to the product of the side lengths divided by times the circumradius. Therefore, . Solving this simple algebraic equation gives us .
Plugging in the values, we have . Rewriting this gives us .
Therefore, adding these values gets us
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