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Notice that <math>CD = AE = AJ = AF + FJ = 1 + \frac{-1 + \sqrt{5}}{2} = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}</math>. | Notice that <math>CD = AE = AJ = AF + FJ = 1 + \frac{-1 + \sqrt{5}}{2} = \frac{1 + \sqrt{5}}{2}</math>. |
Revision as of 17:09, 7 March 2018
Problem
In the figure shown below, is a regular pentagon and
. What is
?
Solution 1
Triangle is isosceles, so
.
since
is also isosceles. Using the symmetry of pentagon
, notice that
. Therefore,
.
Since ,
.
So, since
must be greater than 0.
Notice that .
Therefore,
Solution 2 (Trigonometry)
Note that since is a regular pentagon, all of its interior angles are
. We can say that pentagon
is also regular by symmetry. So, all of the interior angles of
are
. Now, we can angle chase and use trigonometry to get that
,
, and
. Adding these together, we get that
. Because calculators were not permitted in the 2015 AMC 10B, we can not use a calculator to find out which of the options is equal to
, but we can find that this is closest to
.
Solution 3
When you first see this problem you can't help but see similar triangles. But this shape is filled with triangles throwing us off. First, let us write our answer in terms of one side length. I chose to write it in terms of
so we can apply similar triangles easily. To simplify the process lets write
as
.
First what is in terms of
, also remember
:
=
Next, find in terms of
, also remember
:
=
So adding all the we get
. Now we have to find out what x is. For this, we break out a bit of trig. Let's look at
By the law of sines:
Now by the double angle identities in trig.
substituting in
A good thing to memorize for AMC and AIME is the exact values for all the nice sines and cosines. You would then know that:
=
so now we know:
Substituting back into we get
See Also
2015 AMC 10B (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 21 |
Followed by Problem 23 | |
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