2021 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
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In a plane, four circles with radii and are tangent to line at the same point but they may be on either side of . Region consists of all the points that lie inside exactly one of the four circles. What is the maximum possible area of region ?
Solution
Suppose that line is horizontal, and each circle lies either north or south to We construct the circles one by one:
- Without the loss of generality, we draw the circle with radius north to
- To maximize the area of region we draw the circle with radius south to
- Now, we need to subtract the circle with radius at least. The optimal situation is that the circle with radius encompasses the circle with radius in which we do not need to subtract more. That is, the two smallest circles are on the same side of but can be on either side.
The diagram below shows one possible configuration of the four circles: Together, the answer is
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