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Revision as of 17:30, 12 April 2013
Problem
A regular octagon has sides of length two. Find the area of
.
Solution
The area of the triangle can be computed as
. We will now find
and
.
Clearly, is a right isosceles triangle with hypotenuse of length
, hence
.
The same holds for triangle
and its leg
. The length of
is equal to
.
Hence
, and
.
Then the area of equals
.
See Also
2002 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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Followed by Problem 18 | |
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All AMC 10 Problems and Solutions |