2018 AMC 12B Problem 25
Problem 25 of 25HarderGeometry
Circles and each have radius and are placed in the plane so that each circle is externally tangent to the other two. Points and lie on and respectively, so that and line is tangent to for each where See the figure below. The area of can be written in the form where and are positive integers. What is

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Let be the center of and let be the intersection of lines and Because triangle is a -- triangle. With we get and
The Law of Cosines in (with ) gives which simplifies to so
Then and the area is
So
Thus, the correct answer is D.