2005 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 23
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Isosceles right triangle encloses a semicircle of area . The circle has its center on hypotenuse and is tangent to sides and . What is the area of triangle ?
Solution
First, we notice half a square so first let's create a square. Once we have a square, we will have a full circle. This circle has a diameter of 4 which will be the side of the square. The area would be Divide 16 by 2 to get the original shape and you get
Solution 2
We can figure out the radius of the semicircle because the question states that the area of the semicircle is and we can multiply it by 2 to get which we can see it is 2 from the formula. Draw line segment OD such that it is the midsegment of triangle ABC, using the midsegment theorem we can see that line segment AC = . Since triangle ABC is an isosceles right triangle we can calculate the area to be =
Video Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNbXCQXUc6E ~David
Video Solution by OmegaLearn
https://youtu.be/j3QSD5eDpzU?t=1116
~ pi_is_3.14
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