Side of is the diameter of a semicircle, as shown below. If , and , then the area of the shaded region can be written as , where are integers, is positive, is square-free, and . Find .
Solution
Drop an altitude to point on from and let . Solving for , we find So , from which we have . Also, and , so . Then, if is the intersection of the circle with is the intersection of the circle with , and is the midpoint of and . Then, letting , we get that the area of the part of that lies inside the semicircle is So the desired area is
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