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Problem
Hexagon is divided into five rhombuses,
and
as shown. Rhombuses
and
are congruent, and each has area
Let
be the area of rhombus
. Given that
is a positive integer, find the number of possible values for
.
Solution
Let denote the common side length of the rhombi.
Let
denote one of the smaller interior angles of rhombus
. Then
. We also see that
. Thus
can be any positive integer in the interval
.
and
, so
can be any integer between 1 and 89, inclusive. Thus the number of positive values for
is 089.