2015 AIME I Problem 15
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15.
A block of wood has the shape of a right circular cylinder with radius and height and its entire surface has been painted blue. Points and are chosen on the edge of one of the circular faces of the cylinder so that arc on that face measures The block is then sliced in half along the plane that passes through point point and the center of the cylinder, revealing a flat, unpainted face on each half. The area of one of these unpainted faces is where and are integers and is not divisible by the square of any prime. Find
Solution:
Stand the block on the face containing and and let be the center of that face, the midpoint of and the center of the cylinder. The cutting plane meets the bottom face in chord and, by symmetry through meets the top face in the reflected chord, so the cut face projects vertically onto the region between chord and its mirror image through (shaded below). Each circular segment cut off has area so has area
Since triangle gives and so The cut face is planar and tilted from the horizontal only in the direction of at the angle with Undoing the projection therefore multiplies areas by so the unpainted face has area Thus
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