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geometry senior

Problem

A circle is circumscribed about a triangle with sides and thus dividing the interior of the circle into four regions. Let and be the areas of the non-triangular regions, with be the largest. Then
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
. Therefore the triangle is a right triangle. But then its hypotenuse is a diameter of the circumcircle, and thus is exactly one half of the circle. Moreover, the area of the triangle is . Therefore the area of the other half of the circumcircle can be expressed as . Thus the answer is . To complete the solution, note that is clearly false. As , we have and thus is false. Similarly , thus is false. And finally, since , , thus is false as well.
Final answer
B