HMMT 十一月 2009 · 团队赛 · 第 6 题
HMMT November 2009 — Team Round — Problem 6
题目详情
- [ 4 ] Find the distance from the ball’s point of first contact with a wall to the nearest vertex.
解析
- [ 4 ] Find the distance from the ball’s point of first contact with a wall to the nearest vertex. Answer: 2 B Y M √ 19 5 √ 2 5 3 2 5 A C Consider the diagram above, where M is the midpoint of BC . Then AM is perpendicular to BC since √ 5 3 ABC is equilateral, so by the Pythagorean theorem AM = . Then, using the Pythagorean theorem 2 1 again, we see that M Y = , so that BY = 2. 2