2017 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 24
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[hide]Problem
Quadrilateral has right angles at
and
,
, and
. There is a point
in the interior of
such that
and the area of
is
times the area of
. What is
?
Solution 1
Let ,
, and
. Note that
. By the Pythagorean Theorem,
. Since
, the ratios of side lengths must be equal. Since
,
and
. Let F be a point on
such that
is an altitude of triangle
. Note that
. Therefore,
and
. Since
and
form altitudes of triangles
and
, respectively, the areas of these triangles can be calculated. Additionally, the area of triangle
can be calculated, as it is a right triangle. Solving for each of these yields:
Therefore, the answer is
Solution 2
Draw line through
, with
on
and
on
,
. WLOG let
,
,
. By weighted average
.
Meanwhile, . This follows from comparing the ratios of triangle DEG to CFE and triangle AEG to FEB, both pairs in which the two triangles share a height perpendicular to FG, and have base ratio
.
. We obtain
,
namely
.
The rest is the same as Solution 1.
Solution 3
Let ,
,
Note that cannot be the intersection of
and
, as that would mean
Let ,
Solution 4
Let . Then from the similar triangles condition, we compute
and
. Hence, the
-coordinate of
is just
. Since
lies on the unit circle, we can compute the
coordinate as
. By Shoelace, we want
Factoring out denominators and expanding by minors, this is equivalent to
This factors as
, so
and so the answer is
.
Solution 5
Let where
. Because
. Notice that the diagonals are perpendicular with slopes of
and
. Let the intersection of
and
be
, then
. However, because
is a trapezoid,
and
share the same area, therefore
is the reflection of
over the perpendicular bisector of
, which is
. We use the linear equations of the diagonals,
, to find the coordinates of
.
The y-coordinate of
is simply
The area of
is
. We apply shoelace theorem to solve for the area of
. The coordinates of the triangle are
, so the area is
Finally, we use the property that the ratio of areas equals
~Zeric
Solution 6
This solution involves proving .
Let be the intersection of
and
. Label points
and
the same way as
.
. Additionally,
, so
by SAS. Therefore,
.
Next, because
. Also,
, so
. Therefore,
by AA. Since
,
.
Given , we deduce that the ratio of corresponding side lengths of
to
must be
. Now, we set
,
, and
. Using the Pythagorean Theorem,
. Thus,
. Solving gives
.
Finally, .
~Zhixing
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Notes
1) is the most relevant answer choice because it shares numbers with the givens of the problem.
2) It's a very good guess to replace finding the area of triangle AED with the area of the triangle DAF, where F is the projection of D onto AB(then find the closest answer choice).
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