2015 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 25
Problem
A collection of circles in the upper half-plane, all tangent to the -axis, is constructed in layers as follows. Layer
consists of two circles of radii
and
that are externally tangent. For
, the circles in
are ordered according to their points of tangency with the
-axis. For every pair of consecutive circles in this order, a new circle is constructed externally tangent to each of the two circles in the pair. Layer
consists of the
circles constructed in this way. Let
, and for every circle
denote by
its radius. What is
DIAGRAM NEEDED
$\textbf{(A)}\ \frac{286}{35} \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ \frac{583}{70} \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ \frac{715}{73} \qquad\textbf{(D)}}\ \frac{143}{14} \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ \frac{1573}{146}$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)
Solution
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