2023 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 13
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Problem
Abdul and Chiang are standing feet apart in a field. Bharat is standing in the same field as far from Abdul as possible so that the angle formed by his lines of sight to Abdul and Chiang measures . What is the square of the distance (in feet) between Abdul and Bharat?
Solution 1
Let and .
By the Law of Sines, we know that . Rearranging, we get that where is a function of . We want to maximize .
We know that the maximum value of , so this yields
A quick check verifies that indeed works.
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Solution 2 (no law of sines)
Let us begin by circumscribing the two points A and C so that the arc it determines has measure . Then the point B will lie on the circle, which we can quickly find the radius of by using the 30-60-90 triangle formed by the radius and the midpoint of segment . We will find that . Due to the triangle inequality, is maximized when B is on the diameter passing through A, giving a length of and when squared gives .
Solution 3
It is quite clear that this is just a 30-60-90 triangle as an equilateral triangle gives an answer of , which is not on the answer choices. Its ratio is , so .
Its square is then
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Solution 4
We use , , to refer to Abdul, Bharat and Chiang, respectively. We draw a circle that passes through and and has the central angle . Thus, is on this circle. Thus, the longest distance between and is the diameter of this circle. Following from the law of sines, the square of this diameter is
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Solution 5 (Straightforward)
We can represent Abdul, Bharat and Chiang as , , and , respectively. Since we have and , this is obviously a triangle, and it would not matter where is. By the side ratios of a triangle, we can infer that . Squaring AB we get .
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Solution 6 (Logic)
As in the previous solution, refer to Abdul, Bharat and Chiang as , , and , respectively- we also have . Note that we actually can't change the lengths, and thus the positions, of and , because that would change the value of (if we extended either of these lengths, then we could simply draw such that is perpendicular to , so is unchanged). We can change the position of to alter the values of and , but throughout all of these changes, remains unvaried. Therefore, we can let .
It follows that is --, and . is then and the square of is .
-Benedict T (countmath1)
Video Solution by MegaMath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsiqPRWCEkQ&t=3s
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Video Solution 1 by OmegaLearn
Video Solution
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Video Solution by Math-X (First understand the problem!!!)
https://youtu.be/N2lyYRMuZuk?si=_Y5mdCFhG-XD7SaG&t=631
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See Also
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