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4. A tangent is drawn from point CC to a circle with radius 252 \sqrt{5} and center at point OO. Point AA is the point of tangency. Segment COC O intersects the circle at point BB. A perpendicular is dropped from point BB to line BCB C until it intersects line ACA C at point FF. Find the radius of the circumscribed circle around triangle ABCA B C if BF=2B F=2.

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# Solution:

Since BFB F and AFA F are segments of tangents, BF=AF=2B F=A F=2.

Right triangles AOCA O C and BFCB F C are similar, OCFC=ACBC=OABF\frac{O C}{F C}=\frac{A C}{B C}=\frac{O A}{B F}.

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Let x=CF,y=BCx=C F, \quad y=B C.

Then y+25x=2+xy=5{y+25=x5,2+x=y5,{5y+10=5x,2+x=5y,{x=3,y=5.\frac{y+2 \sqrt{5}}{x}=\frac{2+x}{y}=\sqrt{5} \Leftrightarrow\left\{\begin{array}{l}y+2 \sqrt{5}=x \sqrt{5}, \\ 2+x=y \sqrt{5},\end{array} \Leftrightarrow\left\{\begin{array}{l}\sqrt{5} y+10=5 x, \\ 2+x=\sqrt{5} y,\end{array} \Leftrightarrow \Leftrightarrow\left\{\begin{array}{l}x=3, \\ y=\sqrt{5} .\end{array}\right.\right.\right.

In triangle ABCA B C, we have AC=5,BC=5,sinOCA=AOOC=2535=23,cosOCA=53A C=5, \quad B C=\sqrt{5}, \sin \angle O C A=\frac{A O}{O C}=\frac{2 \sqrt{5}}{3 \sqrt{5}}=\frac{2}{3}, \cos \angle O C A=\frac{\sqrt{5}}{3}.

From this, by the cosine rule, we get

AB2=AC2+BC22ACBCcosOCA=25+510513=403,AB=2103 A B^{2}=A C^{2}+B C^{2}-2 A C \cdot B C \cos \angle O C A=25+5-10 \cdot 5 \cdot \frac{1}{3}=\frac{40}{3}, A B=\frac{2 \sqrt{10}}{\sqrt{3}}

Then Rcircum =AB2sinOCA=2103232=302R_{\text {circum }}=\frac{A B}{2 \sin \angle O C A}=\frac{2 \sqrt{10} \cdot 3}{2 \sqrt{3} \cdot 2}=\frac{\sqrt{30}}{2}.

Answer: 30/2\sqrt{30} / 2.

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