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The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are tangent to the sides of the square and the small circle in the centre is tangent to each of the four circles. What is the ratio of the radius of the small circle to the side of the square?
a \(\frac{1}{2}\)
b \(\frac{1}{4}(\sqrt{2} -1)\)
c \(\frac{1}{2}(\sqrt{2}-1)\)
d \(\sqrt{2} -1\)
e \(2 (\sqrt{2}-2)\)
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Originally posted by alex90 on 26 Apr 2013, 12:12.
Last edited by Gladiator59 on 09 Sep 2019, 08:08, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   26 Apr 2013, 12:39
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alex90 wrote:
The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are tangent to the sides of the square and the small circle in the centre is tangent to each of the four circles. What is the ratio of the small circle to the side of the square?
a 1/2
b 1/4(\sqrt{2} -1)
c 1/2(\sqrt{2}-1)
d \sqrt{2} -1
e 2 (\sqrt{2}-2)


Lets assume that the radius of the big circle is 1.
Create a square connecting all the centers (look picture). Its side is 2, it diagonal is \(2\sqrt{2}\), this if formed by 2 radius and the diameter of the smaller circle
\(2\sqrt{2}-2(=2*radiusBig)=diameterSmall\) \(2(\sqrt{2}-1)=diamSmall\)
so radius small = \(\sqrt{2}-1\)

The ratio radius to side square (= 4) is \((\sqrt{2}-1)/4\)
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   26 Apr 2013, 15:45
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The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are tangent to the sides of the square and the small circle in the centre is tangent to each of the four circles. What is the ratio of the small circle to the side of the square?
a 1/2
b 1/4(\sqrt{2} -1)
c 1/2(\sqrt{2}-1)
d \sqrt{2} -1
e 2 (\sqrt{2}-2)



Is this question copied from the OG verbatim?

The section I highlighted in red seems to fail to aknowledge what ratio they asking (diameter of small circle vs side of square? Circumference of circle vs side of square? etc)
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   29 Apr 2013, 02:45
I considered it as ratio of radius of small circle to the side of the square (yes, the question lacks clarity as to what ratio asked for)

Considering 2 as side of the square

(sqrt2 - 1)/2 = Radius of small circle
2 = Side of Square;Solving it further, we get ans = 1/(4.sqrt2-1)
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   01 May 2015, 03:11
the wording of this problem is bad. it is not from og.

ok, the concept tested is simple.
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   08 Sep 2019, 11:22
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alex90 wrote:
The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are tangent to the sides of the square and the small circle in the centre is tangent to each of the four circles. What is the ratio of the small circle to the side of the square?
a 1/2
b 1/4(\sqrt{2} -1)
c 1/2(\sqrt{2}-1)
d \sqrt{2} -1
e 2 (\sqrt{2}-2)



Is this question copied from the OG verbatim?

The section I highlighted in red seems to fail to aknowledge what ratio they asking (diameter of small circle vs side of square? Circumference of circle vs side of square? etc)


Mods: Gladiator59 generis

Could we please correct the wording of the Q and the formatting of answer choices? Thanks!

ratio of the small circle to the side of the square => "ratio of the radius of small circle to the side of the square"
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   09 Sep 2019, 08:09
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Re: The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2019, 12:00
alex90 wrote:
The Quadrilateral shown above is a square. Four circles are tangent to the sides of the square and the small circle in the centre is tangent to each of the four circles. What is the ratio of the radius of the small circle to the side of the square?
a \(\frac{1}{2}\)
b \(\frac{1}{4}(\sqrt{2} -1)\)
c \(\frac{1}{2}(\sqrt{2}-1)\)
d \(\sqrt{2} -1\)
e \(2 (\sqrt{2}-2)\)


Here's an alternative way to solve this question with very little math, but you need to draw the diagram as accurate as possible, and know that the \(\sqrt{2}\) = 1.41 ish

Right from the start, you can eliminate Answer Choice E because it gives you a negative value
Visually, you can see that about 10 radii from the smaller circle can fit into one side of the square.

The only ratio that gives us close to .1 is \(\frac{1}{4}(\sqrt{2} -1)\)

B is the Answer!
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