2015 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 11
- The following problem is from both the 2015 AMC 12A #8 and 2015 AMC 10A #11, so both problems redirect to this page.
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[hide]Problem 11
The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangle is : . If the rectangle has diagonal of length , then the area may be expressed as for some constant . What is ?
Solution
Let the rectangle have length and width . Then by triangles (or the Pythagorean Theorem), we have , and so . Hence, the area of the rectangle is , so the answer is
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2015 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Preceded by Problem 7 |
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