A dice accommodates 9 similar spheres, as proven beneath. There’s one sphere within the heart of the dice. Above (and beneath) the middle sphere are 4 spheres tangent to the middle sphere and the 4 corners of the dice. What’s the radius of every sphere?
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Reply To Spheres In A Dice Puzzle
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Suppose a dice has edges of facet size s. Then every face has a diagonal equal to s√2. Then the diagonal of the dice is the hypotenuse of a proper triangle with legs consisting of 1 edge and one face diagonal. Thus the dice has a diagonal in size equal to:
√(s2 + (s√2)2)
= s√3
In our downside s = 10 so the diagonal is 10√3.
Now let’s take into account the three spheres alongside the diagonal of the dice. There’s a dice shaped between the decrease left sphere and the nook of the dice with an edge size equal to r. Thus the space between the middle of that sphere and the nook of the dice is r√3. That is true for the opposite nook of the sphere. In between these two spheres are lengths of r, 2r, and r:
Thus the diagonal of the dice has a size equal to r(4 + 2√3), and this equals 10√3, so we now have:
r(4 + 2√3) = 10√3
r = 10√3/(4 + 2√3)
r = 10√3/(4 + 2√3) [(4 – 2√3)/(4 – 2√3)]
r = (40√3 – 60)/(16 – 12)
r = (40√3 – 60)/4
r = 10√3 – 15 ≈ 2.32
Reference
Puzzling StackExchange publish which credit the UK Nationwide Arithmetic Contest
http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/41952/nine-identical-spheres-fit-exactly-into-a-cube
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