2000 AIME I Problem 13
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13.
In the middle of a vast prairie, a firetruck is stationed at the intersection of two perpendicular straight highways. The truck travels at miles per hour along the highways and at miles per hour across the prairie. Consider the set of points that can be reached by the firetruck within six minutes. The area of this region is square miles, where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find
Solution:
In six minutes the truck can drive miles on a highway or miles across the prairie, and an optimal route is a highway stretch followed by a straight prairie segment. Work in the first quadrant with the highways as axes. Driving to takes hours, leaving a prairie range of miles. As runs from to these disks shrink linearly to a point, so their union is the "cone": the convex hull of the disk of radius about the origin and the point bounded by the tangent line from The tangent length is so the ratios are –– and the tangent line is The -axis gives the mirror-image region bounded by
The two tangent lines meet at which lies at distance from the origin — outside the circle — so in the first quadrant the reachable set is exactly the (non-convex) quadrilateral with vertices Splitting it along the diagonal from the origin to gives two triangles, each with area for a quadrant area of
The full region is four copies, with area square miles. Since the answer is
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