2007 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 23
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Problem 23
How many non-congruent right triangles with positive integer leg lengths have areas that are numerically equal to times their perimeters?
Solution
Let and
be the two legs of the triangle.
We have .
Then .
We can complete the square under the root, and we get, .
Let and
, we have
.
After rearranging, squaring both sides, and simplifying, we have .
Putting back and
, and after factoring using
, we've got
.
Factoring 72, we get 6 pairs of and
And this gives us solutions
.
Solution #2
We will proceed by using the fact that , where
is the radius of the incircle and
is the semiperimeter (
).
We are given .
The incircle of breaks the triangle's sides into segments such that
,
and
. Since ABC is a triangle, one of
,
and
is equal to its radius, 6. Let's assume
.
The side lengths then become ,
and
. Plugging into Pythagorean's theorem:
We then proceed as the solution above to arrive at .
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