#Find radius of outer circle of a triangle

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jovial raft
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I believe it's called isosceles triangle. The sides are a, a and c.

The actual problem is to compare area surfaces of outer and inner circle. I just found the formula for small r = (a+b-c)/2. So I assume I'll need to find big R as well. Just marked some stuff on the graph and see some similar triangles but idk what to do from here.

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misty hound
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The radius of the outer circle 'R' would be the distance between the circumcentre of the triangle and any of the vertices.

jovial raft
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Both small r and big R are radiuses. Small is for inner circle and big is for outer one. This pic only has one big R but I can use any of them.

misty hound
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You can forget the small circle

jovial raft
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I did already find the answer with another triangle so it will be easy to use this formula now. The formatting is quite bad but it works lmao

misty hound
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Find the circumcentre of the triangle and find the distance between the circumcentre and any vertex

jovial raft
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Here's an attempt using surface areas.

jovial raft
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