2024 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10
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Quadrilateral is a parallelogram, and is the midpoint of the side . Let be the intersection of lines and . What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral to the area of ?
Solution 1
Let have length and let the altitude of the parallelogram perpendicular to have length .
The area of the parallelogram is and the area of equals . Thus, the area of quadrilateral is .
We have from that . Also, , so the length of the altitude of from is twice that of . This means that the altitude of is , so the area of is .
Then, the area of quadrilateral equals the area of minus that of , which is . Finally, the ratio of the area of to the area of triangle is , so the answer is .
Solution 2
Let . Since with a scale factor of , . The scale factor of also means that , therefore since and have the same height, . Since is a parallelogram, ~Tacos_are_yummy_1
Solution 3 (Techniques)
We assert that is a square of side length . Notice that with a scale factor of . Since the area of is the area of is , so the area of is . Thus the area of is , and we conclude that the answer is
Solution 4
Let be a square with side length , to assist with calculations. We can put this on the coordinate plane with the points , , , and . We have . Therefore, the line has slope and y-intercept . The equation of the line is then . The equation of line is . The intersection is when the lines are equal to each other, so we solve the equation. , so . Therefore, plugging it into the equation, we get . Using the shoelace theorem, we get the area of to be and the area of to be , so our ratio is
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