2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 23
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Problem
A sphere is inscribed in a truncated right circular cone as shown. The volume of the truncated cone is twice that of the sphere. What is the ratio of the radius of the bottom base of the truncated cone to the radius of the top base of the truncated cone?
Solution 1
First, we draw the vertical cross-section passing through the middle of the frustum.
Let the top base have a diameter of 2, and the bottom base have a diameter of 2r.
Then using the Pythagorean theorem we have:
,
which is equivalent to:
.
Subtracting
from both sides,
Solving for , we end up with
Next, we can find the volume of the frustum and of the sphere. Since we know
, we can solve for
using
we get:
Using
, we get
so we have:
Dividing by
, we get
which is equivalent to
, so
Solution 2
Similar to above, draw a smaller cone top with the base of the smaller circle with radius and height
. The smaller right triangle is similar to the blue highlighted one in Solution 1. Then
where
is the radius of the sphere. Then
.
From the Pythagorean theorem on the blue triangle in Solution 1, we get similarly that .
From the volume requirements, we get that which yields
.
The small right triangle on top is similar to the big right triangle of the entire big cone. So .
Substituting yields .
Substituting and
yields
which yields
.
Solving inyields
so
.
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