Try this beautiful problem from Geometry based on Circular Cylinder.
A right circular cylinder with its diameter equal to its height is inscribed in a right circular cone. The cone has diameter $10$ and altitude $12$, and the axes of the cylinder and cone coincide. Find the radius of the cylinder.
Geometry
Cylinder
cone
Answer: \(\frac{30}{11}\)
AMC-10A (2001) Problem 21
Pre College Mathematics
Given that the diameter equal to its height is inscribed in a right circular cone.Let the diameter and the height of the right circular cone be \(2r\).And also The cone has diameter $10$ and altitude $12$, and the axes of the cylinder and cone coincide.we have to find out the radius of the cylinder.Now if we can show that \(\triangle AFE \sim \triangle AGC\), then we can find out the value of \(r\)
Can you now finish the problem ..........
Given that \(Bc=10\),\(AG=12\),\(HL=FG=2r\). Therefore \(AF=12-2r\),\(FE=r\),\(GC=5\)
Now the \(\triangle AFE \sim \triangle AGC\), Can you find out the radius from from this similarity property.......?
can you finish the problem........
Since \(\triangle AFE \sim \triangle AGC\), we can write \(\frac{AF}{FE}=\frac{AG}{GC}\)
\(\Rightarrow \frac{12-2r}{r}=\frac{12}{5}\)
\(\Rightarrow r=\frac{30}{11}\)
Therefore the radius of the cylinder is \(\frac{30}{11}\)
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