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Circle revolving around circle

Source: 2014 aime i #10

March 14, 2014
trigonometryrotationgeometrygeometric transformationtrapezoidnumber theoryrelatively prime

Problem Statement

A disk with radius 11 is externally tangent to a disk with radius 55. Let AA be the point where the disks are tangent, CC be the center of the smaller disk, and EE be the center of the larger disk. While the larger disk remains fixed, the smaller disk is allowed to roll along the outside of the larger disk until the smaller disk has turned through an angle of 360360^\circ. That is, if the center of the smaller disk has moved to the point DD, and the point on the smaller disk that began at AA has now moved to point BB, then AC\overline{AC} is parallel to BD\overline{BD}. Then sin2(BEA)=mn\sin^2(\angle BEA)=\tfrac{m}{n}, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm+n.