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two quarter circles in a rectangle solution

Solution to the Two Quarter Circles in a Rectangle Puzzle

Two Quarter Circles in a Square II

What’s the sum of these two angles?

Solution by Isosceles Triangles, Angles in a Triangle, and Properties of Circles

Two quarter circles in a rectangle annotated

With the points labelled as above, the point where the quarter circles touch, FF, lies on the line between their centres, so BFAB F A is a straight line and is a diagonal of the rectangle.

As AA is the centre of the red quarter circle, triangle AFEA F E is isosceles and therefore angle AF^EA \hat{F} E is the same as angle AE^FA \hat{E} F. Similarly, angle BF^CB \hat{F} C is the same as angle BC^FB \hat{C} F.

Since angles in a triangle add up to 180 180^\circ, the angles in triangle AFEA F E and in triangle BCFB C F add up together to 360 360^\circ. So

2AE^F+EA^F+2BC^F+CB^F=360 2 A \hat{E} F + E \hat{A} F + 2 B \hat{C} F + C \hat{B} F = 360^\circ

Then also ABDA B D is a triangle and angle AD^BA \hat{D} B is a right-angle, so EA^F+CB^F=90 E \hat{A} F + C \hat{B} F = 90^\circ, meaning that:

AE^F+BC^F=360 90 2=135 A \hat{E} F + B \hat{C} F = \frac{360^\circ - 90^\circ}{2} = 135^\circ