2010 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 19
Problem
A circle with center has area . Triangle is equilateral, $\overbar{BC}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg) is a chord on the circle, , and point is outside . What is the side length of ?
Solution
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
See Also
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