2010 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 19
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[hide]Problem
A circle with center has area . Triangle is equilateral, is a chord on the circle, , and point is outside . What is the side length of ?
Solution 1
The formula for the area of a circle is so the radius of this circle is
Because must be in the interior of circle
Let be the unknown value, the sidelength of the triangle, and let be the point on where Since is equilateral, and We are given Use the Pythagorean Theorem and solve for
Solution 2
We can use the same diagram as Solution 1 and label the side length of as . Using congruent triangles, namely the two triangles and , we get that . From this, we can use the Law of Cosines, to get Simplifying, we get We can factor this to get Obviously, we want the positive solution to get ~hansenhe
Video Solution
https://youtu.be/FQO-0E2zUVI?t=906
~IceMatrix
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