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JEE Advanced2022Paper 1MATH-I
Q.

Let be the triangle with , and . If a circle of radius touches the sides , and also touches internally the circumcircle of the triangle , then the value of is _____________.

Solution

Place at the origin with on the -axis and on the -axis. Since , the hypotenuse is a diameter of the circumcircle.

The circumcentre is the midpoint of : , and the circumradius is .

A circle tangent to both axes lying in the first quadrant has centre and radius . For internal tangency with the circumcircle, the distance between centres equals :

Squaring: , which simplifies to , i.e., .

Since , (rounded to two decimals).

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