1993 AJHSME Problems/Problem 18
Problem
The rectangle shown has length , width , and and are midpoints of and , respectively. The area of quadrilateral is
Solution
The area of the quadrilateral is equal to the areas of the two right triangles and subtracted from the area of the rectangle . Because and are midpoints, we know the dimensions of the two right triangles.
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