Equilateral Triangle Tangency Points
Source: AIME 2009II Problem 5
April 2, 2009
trigonometrygeometrycircumcircleLaTeXanalytic geometrynumber theoryrelatively prime
Problem Statement
Equilateral triangle is inscribed in circle , which has radius . Circle with radius is internally tangent to circle at one vertex of . Circles and , both with radius , are internally tangent to circle at the other two vertices of . Circles , , and are all externally tangent to circle , which has radius , where and are relatively prime positive integers. Find m \plus{} n.
[asy]unitsize(2.2mm);
defaultpen(linewidth(.8pt)+fontsize(8pt));
dotfactor=4;pair A=(0,0), D=8*dir(330), C=8*dir(210), B=7*dir(90);
pair Ep=(0,4-27/5);
pair[] dotted={A,B,C,D,Ep};draw(Circle(A,10));
draw(Circle(B,3));
draw(Circle(C,2));
draw(Circle(D,2));
draw(Circle(Ep,27/5));dot(dotted);
label("",Ep,E);
label("",A,W);
label("",B,W);
label("",C,W);
label("",D,E);[/asy]