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The other way is to use the Mean Geometry Theorem. Note that <math>\triangle BCE</math> and <math>\triangle BDA</math> are similar and have the same orientation. Note that <math>B</math> is the weighted average of <math>B</math> and <math>B</math>, <math>M</math> is the weighted average of <math>E</math> and <math>A</math>, and <math>N</math> is the weighted average of <math>C</math> and <math>D</math>. The weights are the same for all three averages. (The weights are actually just <math>\frac{1}{2}</math> and <math>\frac{1}{2}</math>, so these are also unweighted averages.) Thus, by the Mean Geometry Theorem, <math>\triangle BMN</math> is similar to both <math>\triangle BAD</math> and <math>\triangle BEC</math>, which means that <math>\triangle BMN</math> is equilateral. | The other way is to use the Mean Geometry Theorem. Note that <math>\triangle BCE</math> and <math>\triangle BDA</math> are similar and have the same orientation. Note that <math>B</math> is the weighted average of <math>B</math> and <math>B</math>, <math>M</math> is the weighted average of <math>E</math> and <math>A</math>, and <math>N</math> is the weighted average of <math>C</math> and <math>D</math>. The weights are the same for all three averages. (The weights are actually just <math>\frac{1}{2}</math> and <math>\frac{1}{2}</math>, so these are also unweighted averages.) Thus, by the Mean Geometry Theorem, <math>\triangle BMN</math> is similar to both <math>\triangle BAD</math> and <math>\triangle BEC</math>, which means that <math>\triangle BMN</math> is equilateral. | ||
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+ | ==Solution 3== | ||
+ | <math> AB = BD, BE = BC, \angle ABE = \angle CBD \implies \triangle ABE= \triangle DBC \implies</math> | ||
+ | medians <math>MB = MN, \angle ABM = \angle DBN \implies \angle MBN = \angle ABD - \angle ABM + \angle DBN = 60^\circ \implies \triangle MNB</math> is equilateral triangle. | ||
+ | The height of BCE is <math>2 \sqrt{3} \implies \frac {AE^2}{4} =\frac{ (16 + 2)^2 +2^2 \cdot 3}{4} = 81 + 3 = 84.</math> | ||
+ | <math>BM</math> is the median of <math>\triangle ABE \implies MB^2 = \frac {AB^2}{2} + \frac {BE^2}{2} - \frac {AE^2}{4}=16 \cdot 8 + 4 \cdot 2 – 84 = 52.</math> | ||
+ | The area of <math>\triangle BMN</math>,<cmath>[BMN] = \frac{\sqrt{3}}{4} BM^2</cmath>=13 \sqrt{3} \implies \boxed{\textbf{507}}.$ | ||
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Revision as of 08:26, 1 September 2022
Problem
Point lies on line segment with and . Points and lie on the same side of line forming equilateral triangles and . Let be the midpoint of , and be the midpoint of . The area of is . Find .
Diagram
Diagram by RedFireTruck (talk) 18:52, 15 February 2021 (EST)
Solution 1 (fastest)
Let point be at . Then, is at , and is at . Due to symmetry, it is allowed to assume and are in quadrant 1. By equilateral triangle calculations, Point is at , and Point is at . By Midpoint Formula, is at , and is at . The distance formula shows that . Therefore, by equilateral triangle area formula by Shoelace Theorem, , so is .
Solution 2
Note that and . Also, . Thus, by SAS.
From this, it is clear that a rotation about will map to . This rotation also maps to . Thus, and . Thus, is equilateral.
Using the Law of Cosines on , Thus, .
Using Stewart's Theorem on ,
Calculating the area of , Thus, , so . Our final answer is .
Admittedly, this is much more tedious than the coordinate solutions.
I also noticed that there are two more ways of showing that is equilateral:
One way is to show that , , and are related by a spiral similarity centered at .
The other way is to use the Mean Geometry Theorem. Note that and are similar and have the same orientation. Note that is the weighted average of and , is the weighted average of and , and is the weighted average of and . The weights are the same for all three averages. (The weights are actually just and , so these are also unweighted averages.) Thus, by the Mean Geometry Theorem, is similar to both and , which means that is equilateral.
Solution 3
medians is equilateral triangle. The height of BCE is is the median of The area of ,=13 \sqrt{3} \implies \boxed{\textbf{507}}.$
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