2007 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 24
Problem
Circles centered at and
each have radius
, as shown. Point
is the midpoint of
, and
. Segments
and
are tangent to the circles centered at
and
, respectively, and
is a common tangent. What is the area of the shaded region
?
Solution
The area we are trying to find is simply .
Obviously,
. Thus,
is a rectangle, and so its area is
.
Since is tangent to circle
,
is a right triangle. We know
and
, so
is an isosceles right triangle, and has
with length
. The area of
. By symmetry,
, and so the area of
is also
.
(or
, for that matter) is
the area of its circle since
is 45 degree and
forms a right triangle. Thus
and
both have an area of
.
Plugging all of these areas back into the original equation yields .
See also
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