Circle properties and circle theorems

There are 50 NRICH Mathematical resources connected to Circle properties and circle theorems
Crescents and triangles
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Crescents and triangles

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Can you find a relationship between the area of the crescents and the area of the triangle?
Similarly so
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Similarly so

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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ABCD is a square. P is the midpoint of AB and is joined to C. A line from D perpendicular to PC meets the line at the point Q. Prove AQ = AD.
Lens Angle
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Lens Angle

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Find the missing angle between the two secants to the circle when the two angles at the centre subtended by the arcs created by the intersections of the secants and the circle are 50 and 120 degrees.
Tricircle
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Tricircle

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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The centre of the larger circle is at the midpoint of one side of an equilateral triangle and the circle touches the other two sides of the triangle. A smaller circle touches the larger circle and two sides of the triangle. If the small circle has radius 1 unit find the radius of the larger circle.
Three Balls
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Three Balls

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A circle has centre O and angle POR = angle QOR. Construct tangents at P and Q meeting at T. Draw a circle with diameter OT. Do P and Q lie inside, or on, or outside this circle?
Cyclic Quad Jigsaw
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Cyclic Quad Jigsaw

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A picture is made by joining five small quadrilaterals together to make a large quadrilateral. Is it possible to draw a similar picture if all the small quadrilaterals are cyclic?
Encircling
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Encircling

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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An equilateral triangle is sitting on top of a square. What is the radius of the circle that circumscribes this shape?
Three four five
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Three four five

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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Two semi-circles (each of radius 1/2) touch each other, and a semi-circle of radius 1 touches both of them. Find the radius of the circle which touches all three semi-circles.
Sitting Pretty
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Sitting Pretty

Age
14 to 16
Challenge level
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A circle of radius r touches two sides of a right angled triangle, sides x and y, and has its centre on the hypotenuse. Can you prove the formula linking x, y and r?
Not so little x
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Not so little x

Age
11 to 14
Challenge level
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Two circles are enclosed by a rectangle 12 units by x units. The distance between the centres of the two circles is x/3 units. How big is x?