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− | Let <math>Z = XY \cap AB</math>. By the Radical Axis Theorem <math>AD, XY, BC</math> concur at point <math>E</math>. Furthermore, by simple angle chasing, <math>\triangle DXE \sim \triangle EXC</math>. Let <math>y = EX, x = XZ</math>. Then <math>\frac{y}{37} = \frac{67}{y} \implies y^2 = 37 \cdot 67</math>. Now, by Power of a Point, <math>AZ = AB</math>, <math>(y-x)x = \frac{AB^2}{4}</math>, and <math>x(47+x) = \frac{AB^2}{4}</math>. Solving, we get <math>AB^2 = \left(\frac{y - 47}{2}\right)\left(\frac{y + 47}{2}\right) = 37\cdot67 - 47^2 = \boxed{270}</math> | + | Let <math>Z = XY \cap AB</math>. By the Radical Axis Theorem <math>AD, XY, BC</math> concur at point <math>E</math>. Furthermore, by simple angle chasing, <math>\triangle DXE \sim \triangle EXC</math>. Let <math>y = EX, x = XZ</math>. Then <math>\frac{y}{37} = \frac{67}{y} \implies y^2 = 37 \cdot 67</math>. Now, by Power of a Point, <math>AZ^2 = ZB^2 \frac{AB^2}{4}</math>, <math>(y-x)x = \frac{AB^2}{4}</math>, and <math>x(47+x) = \frac{AB^2}{4}</math>. Solving, we get <math>AB^2 = \left(\frac{y - 47}{2}\right)\left(\frac{y + 47}{2}\right) = 37\cdot67 - 47^2 = \boxed{270}</math> |
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===Solution 2=== | ===Solution 2=== |
Revision as of 23:10, 17 February 2018
Problem
Circles and
intersect at points
and
. Line
is tangent to
and
at
and
, respectively, with line
closer to point
than to
. Circle
passes through
and
intersecting
again at
and intersecting
again at
. The three points
,
,
are collinear,
,
, and
. Find
.
Solution
Solution 1
Let . By the Radical Axis Theorem
concur at point
. Furthermore, by simple angle chasing,
. Let
. Then
. Now, by Power of a Point,
,
, and
. Solving, we get
Solution 2
By the Radical Axis Theorem concur at point
.
Let and
intersect at
. Note that because
and
are cyclic, by Miquel's Theorem
is cyclic as well. Thus
and
Thus
and
, so
is a parallelogram. Hence
and
. But notice that
and
are similar by
Similarity, so
. But
Hence
Solution 3
First, we note that as and
have bases along the same line,
. We can also find the ratio of their areas using the circumradius area formula. If
is the radius of
and if
is the radius of
, then
Since we showed this to be
, we see that
.
We extend and
to meet at point
, and we extend
and
to meet at point
as shown below.
As
is cyclic, we know that
. But then as
is tangent to
at
, we see that
. Therefore,
, and
. A similar argument shows
. These parallel lines show
. Also, we showed that
, so the ratio of similarity between
and
is
, or rather
We can now use the parallel lines to find more similar triangles. As
, we know that
Setting
, we see that
, hence
, and the problem simplifies to finding
. Setting
, we also see that
, hence
. Also, as
, we find that
As
, we see that
, hence
.
Applying Power of a Point to point with respect to
, we find
or
. We wish to find
.
Applying Stewart's Theorem to , we find
We can cancel
from both sides, finding
. Therefore,
Solution 3
First of all, since quadrilaterals
and
are cyclic, we can let
, and
, due to the properties of cyclic quadrilaterals. In addition, let
and
. Thus,
and
. Then, since quadrilateral
is cyclic as well, we have the following sums:
Cancelling out
in the second equation and isolating
yields
. Substituting
back into the first equation, we obtain
Since
we can then imply that
. Similarly,
. So then
, so since we know that
bisects
, we can solve for
and
with Stewart’s Theorem. Let
and
. Then
Now, since
and
,
. From there, let
and
. From angle chasing we can derive that
and
. From there, since
, it is quite clear that
, and
can be found similarly. From there, since
and
, we have
similarity between
,
, and
. Therefore the length of
is the geometric mean of the lengths of
and
(from
). However,
yields the proportion
; hence, the length of
is the geometric mean of the lengths of
and
.
We can now simply use arithmetic to calculate
.
-Solution by TheBoomBox77
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