2000 AIME II Problems/Problem 10
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[hide]Problem
A circle is inscribed in quadrilateral , tangent to
at
and to
at
. Given that
,
,
, and
, find the square of the radius of the circle.
Solution
Call the center of the circle . By drawing the lines from
tangent to the sides and from
to the vertices of the quadrilateral, four pairs of congruent right triangles are formed.
Thus, , or
.
Take the of both sides and use the identity for
to get
.
Use the identity for again to get
.
Solving gives .
Solution 2
Just use the area formula for tangential quadrilaterals. The numbers are really big. A terrible problem to work on ( and
are the tangent lengths, not the side lengths).
.
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