2011 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 11
Problem
Circles and
each have radius 1. Circles
and
share one point of tangency. Circle
has a point of tangency with the midpoint of
What is the area inside circle
but outside circle
and circle
$\textbf{(A)}\ 3 - \frac{\pi}{2} \qquad \textbf{(B)}\ \frac{\pi}{2} \qquad \textbf{(C)}\ 2 \qquad \textbf{(D)}\ \frac{3\pi}{4} \qquad \textbf{(E)}\ 1+\frac{\pi}{2}}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Solution
The requested area is the area of minus the area shared between circles
,
and
.
Let be the midpoint of
and
be the other intersection of circles
and
.
Then area shared between ,
and
is
of the regions between arc
and line
, which is (considering the arc on circle
) a quarter of the circle
minus
:
(We can assume this because is 90 degrees, since
is a square, due the application of the tangent chord theorem at point
)
So the area of the small region is
The requested area is area of circle minus 4 of this area:
.
See also
2011 AMC 12A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | |
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