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Turkey NMO 2010 1st Round - P07 (Algebra)

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July 27, 2012
geometrysimilar triangles

Problem Statement

A frog is at the center of a circular shaped island with radius rr. The frog jumps 1/21/2 meters at first. After the first jump, it turns right or left at exactly 9090^\circ, and it always jumps one half of its previous jump. After a finite number of jumps, what is the least rr that yields the frog can never fall into the water?
<spanclass=latexbold>(A)</span> 53<spanclass=latexbold>(B)</span> 135<spanclass=latexbold>(C)</span> 196<spanclass=latexbold>(D)</span> 12<spanclass=latexbold>(E)</span> 34 <span class='latex-bold'>(A)</span>\ \frac{\sqrt 5}{3} \qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(B)</span>\ \frac{\sqrt {13}}{5} \qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(C)</span>\ \frac{\sqrt {19}}{6} \qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(D)</span>\ \frac{1}{\sqrt 2} \qquad<span class='latex-bold'>(E)</span>\ \frac34