
A semicircle is inscribed in a right(-angled) triangle.
What is the exact area of the semicircle?
Solution
The right(-angled) triangle is a Pythagorean triple: (3, 4, 5).
The semicircle is tangent to the hypotenuse of the right(-angled) triangle and secant to its base.
Then, the tangent line segments have the same length, 3.
Let r be the radius of the semicircle. Then, we can draw r tangent to the hypotenuse:

As the length of the base of the triangle is 4, we have:

Using the tangent-secant theorem,
So, the area of the semicircle is






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