Square size from a 5 by 10 box touching its incircle
Question
A circle sits inside a square, touching all four sides. In one corner of the square a rectangle is placed with two sides along the square's edges, and its opposite vertex lies exactly on the circle. How long is the square's side?
Short answer
. Put the corner at the origin, so the circle has centre and radius . The vertex on the circle gives , i.e. , so (the root would make the rectangle span the whole side). The side is .
Adapted from Crack, Heard on the Street, Q1.6, p.10; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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