Help needed to solve a high school geometry problem.

Revision en1, by Rafat, 2019-11-10 15:19:41

Given the side length of one equilateral triangle and 3 radii R1, R2, R3 which produce 3 sectors inside the triangle. Calculate the area of the triangle which is not covered by the sectors.

My idea is
We can see there can be three cases.

  1. any radius from R1, R2, R3 is greater than or equal to S for which the answer will be Zero
  2. if R1+R2<S and R2+R3<S and R3+R1<S so the answer will be Area of ABC — Area of 3 sectors
  3. if one sector intersects with another...
    For this case, I will check if every pair of circle intersects or not. For this let's denote P as the intersection point. and let's draw a line PT which is perpendicular to the line AB. so from triangle APT and the new sector with an angle 60-Theta

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