2005 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 14
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Equilateral has side length , is the midpoint of , and is the midpoint of . What is the area of ?
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Solution 1 (trig)
The area of a triangle can be given by . because it is the midpoint of a side, and because it is the same length as . Each angle of an equilateral triangle is so . The area is . Note: Even if you don't know the value of , you can use the fact that , so . You can easily calculate to be using equilateral triangles.
~Minor Edits by doulai1
Solution 2
In order to calculate the area of , we can use the formula , where is the base. We already know that , so the formula becomes . We can drop verticals down from and to points and , respectively. We can see that . Now, we establish the relationship that . We are given that , and is the midpoint of , so . Because is a triangle and the ratio of the sides opposite the angles are is . Plugging those numbers in, we have . Cross-multiplying, we see that Since is the height , the area is .
Solution 3
Draw a line from to the midpoint of . Call the midpoint of . This is an equilateral triangle, since the two segments and are identical, and is . Using the Pythagorean Theorem, point to is . Also, the length of is 2, since is the midpoint of . So, our final equation is , which just leaves us with .
Solution 4
Drop a vertical down from to . Let us call the point of intersection and the midpoint of , . We can observe that and are similar. By the Pythagorean theorem, is .
Since we find Because is the midpoint of and Using the area formula,
~ sdk652
Solution 5
Think of and being independent. Now to find area's we just solve for ratios between the triangles that we can plug in the value of (for a side of ) for. Looking at the information, we see that is the midpoint of , and this means that it bisects which results in . Now for the height, we can see that is the midpoint of which means that , and in turn means that the height of is half of that of , and now plugging the ratios of the bases being the same while the height is half of the other triangle, we end up with the area of being half of that of . Now all that's left is to find the area of , and for that, we plug in which leads us to the answer of , but since we need to divide by two, our final answer is
~ help by vadava_lx
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