2023 AIME I Problem 8

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Concepts:rhombusincircle, incenter, and inradiuscoordinate geometry

Difficulty rating: 2920

8.

Rhombus ABCDABCD has BAD<90.\angle BAD \lt 90^\circ. There is a point PP on the incircle of the rhombus such that the distances from PP to the lines DA,DA, AB,AB, and BCBC are 9,9, 5,5, and 16,16, respectively. Find the perimeter of ABCD.ABCD.

Solution:

The distances from an interior point to the parallel lines DADA and BCBC add up to the distance between them, the height of the rhombus. So the height is 9+16=25,9 + 16 = 25, and the incircle, tangent to both lines, has radius 252.\frac{25}{2}. Center the incircle at the origin with DA: y=252DA:\ y = \frac{25}{2} and BC: y=252.BC:\ y = -\frac{25}{2}. Then PP has yy-coordinate 2529=72,\frac{25}{2} - 9 = \frac{7}{2}, and x2+(72)2=(252)2x^2 + \left(\frac{7}{2}\right)^2 = \left(\frac{25}{2}\right)^2 gives x=±12.x = \pm 12.

Let α=BAD.\alpha = \angle BAD. Line ABAB is tangent to the incircle and makes angle α\alpha with the horizontal, so (orienting the figure suitably) it is xsinα+ycosα=252,x \sin\alpha + y \cos\alpha = -\frac{25}{2}, and interior points satisfy xsinα+ycosα+252>0.x\sin\alpha + y\cos\alpha + \frac{25}{2} \gt 0. The condition dist(P,AB)=5\operatorname{dist}(P, AB) = 5 reads xsinα+72cosα+252=5.x \sin\alpha + \frac{7}{2}\cos\alpha + \frac{25}{2} = 5. For x=12x = 12 the left side exceeds 252,\frac{25}{2}, so x=12,x = -12, and the equation becomes 24sinα7cosα=15.24\sin\alpha - 7\cos\alpha = 15.

Substituting 7cosα=24sinα157\cos\alpha = 24\sin\alpha - 15 into sin2α+cos2α=1\sin^2\alpha + \cos^2\alpha = 1 yields 625sin2α720sinα+176=0,625\sin^2\alpha - 720\sin\alpha + 176 = 0, so sinα=45\sin\alpha = \frac{4}{5} or 44125.\frac{44}{125}. The root 44125\frac{44}{125} makes cosα=24sinα157\cos\alpha = \frac{24\sin\alpha - 15}{7} negative, contradicting BAD<90.\angle BAD \lt 90^\circ. So sinα=45,\sin\alpha = \frac{4}{5}, the side length is 25sinα=1254,\frac{25}{\sin\alpha} = \frac{125}{4}, and the perimeter is 41254=125.4 \cdot \frac{125}{4} = 125.

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