TRICKY MATHS PUZZLES – PART – I

TRICKY MATHS PUZZLES – PART – I 

Here in this blog we are discussing about TRICKY  MATHS  PUZZLES –  PART – I . It is illustrated below :

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     1. The bigger circle radius is 4 cm and the medium circle radius is 2 cm . The line tangent to all the circles and the three circles touch each other . Then what is the radius of the smallest circle ?

 SOLUTION :

  Let the radius of the bigger ( orange ) circle be 4 cm and the medium ( blue ) circle

be  2 cm 

Here r is the radius of the smaller (red ) circle

                                                        The distance( X )  between the orange and the red circle will be obtained from having the distances (4 + r) and ( 4 – r ) and the corresponding distance ( Y ) blue and red circles from  ( 2 + r ) and  ( 2 – r  )

By Pythagoras theorem , we have

X =  √ ( 4 + r ) 2 –  (  4 – r ) 2

      = √  ( 16 + r2 + 8r ) – ( 16 + r2 – 8r )

    =  √  8r + 8r    =  √ 16 r 

X =  4√ r

 Y  =√ ( 2 + r ) 2 – ( 2 – r ) 2

     =  √(  4 + r2 + 4r ) – ( 4 + r2 – 4r ) 

      = √ 4r + 4r   =  √8 r  

Y    =  2 √2 r

   x + y  = √ r ( 4 + 2√ 2 )

Thus by Pythagoras theorem we get ,

          6 2           =  2 2 + { (4 + 2√2 ) √r } 2

         36 – 4  =   { ( 16 + 4(2) + 16 2 ) r }

              32   =   { 16 + 8 + 16 * 1.414 } r

                      =   {  24 + 22.62 } r  

                32  =    46. 62 r

                r     =  32 / 46.62           

                       =     0.6864 cm

 Hence the radius of smaller circle is r = 0.68 cm

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