What is the area of the entire figure (in terms of x) given that the segments AB, CD, EF,…, QR are all semicircle diameters, and the lengths decrease geometrically ( AB=2, CD = 2x, EF= 2x^2, GH = 2x^3,…)?
Category: Advanced
Double eclipse
Given green and blue discs, construct a red region so that for every ray leaving L stays in the blue region exactly as long as it does in the pink region. (Namely, KM = OL.)
Pentagon pleasure
Two regular pentagons. The centre of the large one is a vertex of the small one. What is yellow : green?
Mother’s umbrella
A circle containing two internally tangent circles. Prove that the red triangle is isosceles.
Squaring a rectangle II
A square contains a red rectangle with an extended side. Prove that red=|AB||AC|+|BE||CD|. By Matthew Arcus.
Two medians and one side
A triangle has sides a,b,c and the medians d,e,f ending at those sides, respectively. Given only the lengths (b,d,e) construct the triangle (a,b,c). (Start with a triangle with side lengths determined in some manor from the given 3 lengths.)
Crashing the kite
The orange lines are parallel, the purple lines are parallel, the dotted gray lines intersect the base at equal distances. What is the ratio of areas of the blue and green triangles?
The hippodrome shadow
The racer at A is running counter-clockwise around the inside of the outer purple circle, with a “shadow racer” B following behind, related by the three chords that are tangent to the inner orange circle. Does the shadow B ever catch up with A?
Circle triplet
Identical circles have their centers aligned as shown, with the middle circle inscribed in a triangle. Show that the outer circles can be made tangent to the green circumcircle if the red axis is rotated correctly.
Colour convergence
A green line connects two points of tangency of a triangle to its incircle. A red line is the angle bisector at a vertex, and an orange line connects the midpoints of two sides. Show that the three lines are concurrent.