Here’s a great problem that a student brought to me today. For those who’ve been wanting a ‘problem of the month,’ here you go:
The figure shows a fixed circle with equation
and a shrinking circle
with radius
and center the origin (in red).
is the point
,
is the upper point of intersection of the two circles, and
is the point of intersection of the line
and the
-axis. What happens to
as
shrinks, that is, as
?
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