2007 Cyprus MO/Lyceum/Problem 6

$\displaystyle ABCD$ is a square of side length 2 and $FG$ is an arc of the circle with centre the midpoint $K$ of the side $\overline{AB}$ and radius 2. The length of the segments $\displaystyle FD=GC=x$ is

$\mathrm{(A) \ } \frac 14\qquad \mathrm{(B) \ } \frac{\sqrt{2}}2\qquad \mathrm{(C) \ } 2-\sqrt{3}\qquad \mathrm{(D) \ } \sqrt{3} - 1\qquad \mathrm{(E) \ } \sqrt{2} - 1$

Solution

( $F,\ G$ are on $\overline{AD},\ \overline{ BC}$ , respectively)

Draw radii $\overline{KF},\ \overline{KG}$ , both with length $2$ . $\displaystyle AK = BK = 1$ , so we form $30-60-90$ right triangles. $AF = BG = \sqrt{3}$ , and so $DF = CG = 2 - \sqrt{3} \Longrightarrow \mathrm{C}$ .

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2007 Cyprus MO/Lyceum/Problem 6

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