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Example Question #2681 : Gmat Quantitative Reasoning
Rectangle is inscribed inside a circle. What is the radius of the circle?
Statement 1:
Statement 2:
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
The diameter of a circle with an inscribed rectangle is equal to the length of the diagonal of the rectangle; once this diameter is found, it can be divided by 2 to yield the radius.
Statement 1 alone gives this length, from which the radius can be found to be . Statement 2 alone gives only the length of one set of opposite sides, from which the length of the diagonal cannot be determined.
Example Question #22 : Dsq: Calculating The Length Of A Radius
Right triangle is inscribed inside a circle. What is the radius of the circle?
Statement 1: has area 36.
Statement 2:
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
If a right triangle is inscribed inside a circle, the hypotenuse of the triangle is a diameter of the circle; therefore, its length is the diameter, and half this is the radius.
Assume Statement 1 alone. The area of a right triangle is half the product of the lengths of the legs, which is 36. However, this is not enough to determine the length of the hypotenuse.
For example, if the legs measure 8 and 9, the triangle has area
By the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse measures
,
which is the diameter of the circle; half this, or , is the radius of the circle.
If the legs measure 6 and 12, the triangle has area
By the Pythagorean Theorem, the hypotenuse measures
,
which is the diameter of the circle; half this, or , is the radius of the circle.
Therefore, Statement 1 is inisufficient to give the radius.
Assume Statement 2 alone. The hyppotenuse of a right triangle must be longer than either leg, so it is impossible for either of the two equally long sides and to be the hypotenuse of ; they must be its legs. Since the legs are of the same length, is a 45-45-90 triangle, and by the 45-45-90 Theorem, hypotenuse has length that of a leg, or . This is the diameter of the circle, and the radius is half this, or
Example Question #23 : Dsq: Calculating The Length Of A Radius
The equation of a circle can be written in the form
Give the radius of the circle of this equation.
Statement 1:
Statement 2:
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
The actual form of the equation of a circle is
,
where is the location of the center, and is the radius.
The radius of the circle in the equation
is therefore , making Statement 2 alone sufficient to answer the question - and Statement 1 unhelpful.
Example Question #24 : Dsq: Calculating The Length Of A Radius
Between Circle 1 and Circle 2, which has the greater radius?
Statement 1: Circle 1 has as a diameter ; Circle 2 has as a diameter ; is a right triangle.
Statement 2: and are the legs of .
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
Assume both statements are true. Since we have no way to determine which, if either, of the legs of is the longer, we have no way to compare the diameters, and, consequently, no way to compare the radii, of the circles with those segments as diameters.
Example Question #25 : Dsq: Calculating The Length Of A Radius
Right triangle is inscribed inside a circle. What is the radius of the circle?
Statement 1:
Statement 2:
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
If a right triangle is inscribed inside a circle, the hypotenuse of the triangle is a diameter of the circle; therefore, its length is the diameter, and half this is the radius. However, from the two statements, it cannot be determined which segment is the hypotenuse.
If is the hypotenuse, then the radius is half its length; since , the radius is 10.
If is the hypotenuse, then, since the hypotenuse is the longest side of a right triangle, - that is, . The radius is greater than 10.
Therefore, the radius depends on which side is the hypotenuse; since that is not clear, the radius cannot be determined.
Example Question #31 : Radius
Rectangle is inscribed inside a circle. What is the radius of the circle?
Statement 1: Rectangle has area 200.
Statement 2: Rectangle has perimeter 60.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
The diameter of a circle with an inscribed rectangle is equal to the length of a diagonal of the rectangle , which, given the length and width , can be found using the Pythagorean Theorem:
Statement 1 alone gives insufficient information. For example, a 20 by 10 rectangle has area , and a 40 by 5 rectangle has area .
The first rectangle has diagonals of length
.
The second rectangle has diagonals of length
,
Since the diagonals of the rectangles differ, so do the diameters, and, consequently, the radii, of the circles.
Statement 2 alone gives insufficient information for a similar reason. For example, a 20 by 10 rectangle has perimeter , and a 25 by 5 rectangle has perimeter . Again, the first rectangle has diagonals of length . The second has diagonals of length
.
Now, assume both statements to be true. We are looking for two numbers whose product is 200 and whose sum is 30 (since the perimeter is twice the sum, or 60). The only such pair of numbers can be found by trial and error to be 20 and 10, so these are the length and width of the rectangle. As shown before, a rectangle with these dimensions has diagonals of length . This is the diameter of the circle in which it is inscribed, so half this, or , is the radius.
Example Question #32 : Circles
Give the radius of a circle on the coordinate plane.
Statement 1: Of the three intercepts of the circle, exactly two are -intercepts, one of which is at the point .
Statement 2: Of the three intercepts of the circle, exactly two are -intercepts, one of which is at the point .
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 alone only gives one point through which the circle passes, so no information can be determined about the other points or about the size or location of the circle. A similar argument holds for the insufficiency of Statement 2.
Now assume both statements are true. The circle has exactly three intercepts, but it is given that there are two -intercepts - and one other point - and two -intercepts - and one other point. The unidentified -intercept and the unidentified -intercept must be one and the same, and the only possible way this can happen is for this common point to be the origin . Since three points define a circle, we can now identify the unique circle through the points , , and , and we can figure out its radius.
Example Question #31 : Radius
Give the radius of the above circle with center .
Statement 1: is a angle.
Statement 2: is a angle.
EITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient to answer the question, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 1 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 2 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
Statement 2 ALONE is sufficient to answer the question, but Statement 1 ALONE is NOT sufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
BOTH statements TOGETHER are insufficient to answer the question.
The two statements together only give information about angle measures; arc degree measures can be deduced from this information but not any arc lengths or side lengths. Without this information, we cannot obtain the radius of this circle.