Topics: analytic geometry, see heath's "archimedes" for synthetic geometry solution.
Prerequisites: geometry, algebra
Supplies:
Pedagogy:
Problem
In an arbelos the two circles inscribed in regions and have equal radii. See Figure 3. Prove this. Find this radius in terms of the radii of the three semicircles that form the arbelos. (This is Proposition 5 in Archimedes' The Book of Lemmas).
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have equal radii. See Figure 3. Prove this. Find this radius in terms of the radii of the three semicircles that form the arbelos. (This is Proposition 5 in Archimedes' The Book of Lemmas).