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Revision as of 10:51, 4 April 2012
Problem
A right circular cone of base radius cm and slant height
cm is given.
is a point on the circumference of the base and the shortest path from
around the cone and back is drawn (see diagram). If the length of this path is
where
and
are relatively prime positive integers, find
Solution
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We begin by noticing that that the shortest path from a point on the base to and around the cone is the perpendicular from the aforementioned point to the slant line. We can now construct two equations based on this fact. Let be the length from the point on the other end of the diameter from
to the point at which
is perpendicular to the slant. Let
now be the diameter of the shaded circle. We now have two equations :
and
. We can tell from this equation that
, so
. From this we can deduce that y =
.
See Also
Mock AIME 2 2006-2007 (Problems, Source) | ||
Preceded by Problem 6 |
Followed by Problem 8 | |
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