2000 AIME II Problem 10

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10.

A circle is inscribed in quadrilateral ABCD,ABCD, tangent to AB\overline{AB} at PP and to CD\overline{CD} at Q.Q. Given that AP=19,AP = 19, PB=26,PB = 26, CQ=37,CQ = 37, and QD=23,QD = 23, find the square of the radius of the circle.

Answer: 647
Concepts:incircle, incenter, and inradiustrigonometric identityangle bisector
Difficulty rating: 2990
Solution:

Let the incircle have center II and radius r.r. The tangent lengths from A,A, B,B, C,C, DD are 19,19, 26,26, 37,37, 23,23, and II lies on each angle bisector, so the half-angles α,β,γ,δ\alpha, \beta, \gamma, \delta at the four vertices satisfy tanα=r19,\tan\alpha = \frac{r}{19}, tanβ=r26,\tan\beta = \frac{r}{26}, tanγ=r37,\tan\gamma = \frac{r}{37}, tanδ=r23,\tan\delta = \frac{r}{23}, with α+β+γ+δ=180.\alpha + \beta + \gamma + \delta = 180^\circ.

Then tan(α+γ)=tan(β+δ),\tan(\alpha + \gamma) = -\tan(\beta + \delta), and the tangent addition formula turns this into r19+r371r21937=r26+r231r22623, \begin{aligned} &\frac{\frac{r}{19} + \frac{r}{37}}{1 - \frac{r^2}{19 \cdot 37}} \\ &= -\frac{\frac{r}{26} + \frac{r}{23}}{1 - \frac{r^2}{26 \cdot 23}}, \end{aligned} i.e. 56r703r2=49rr2598.\frac{56r}{703 - r^2} = \frac{49r}{r^2 - 598}.

Cross-multiplying gives 56r25659856r^2 - 56 \cdot 598 =4970349r2,= 49 \cdot 703 - 49r^2, so 105r2=33488+34447=67935105r^2 = 33488 + 34447 = 67935 and r2=647.r^2 = 647.

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