RE: A Class of Math Problems (was RE: the 'duck me!' game

From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 07:22:49 MST


Lee Corbin wrote:

>
> An extraordinarily similar one is the following:
> A ten unit long line just fits inside an annulus
> by being tangent to the inner circle and a chord
> of the outer one. What is the area of the annulus?
>

### Wow, I learned something today! Now even my mathematically hebetudinous
mind can immediately conclude that the annulus is equal to a circle with ten
unit diameter.

Rafal



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