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Revision as of 17:43, 8 November 2024
Problem
Let 
be the kite formed by joining two right triangles with legs 
and 
along a common hypotenuse. Eight copies of are used to form the polygon shown below. What is the area of triangle 
?
Solution
Let be quadrilateral MNOP. Drawing line MO splits the triangle into 
.
Drawing the altitude from N to point Q on line MO, we know NQ is 
, MQ is 
, and QO is 
.
Due to the many similarities present, we can find that AB is 
, and the height of is 
AB is 
and the height of is 
.
See also
| 2024 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
| Preceded by Problem 21 |
Followed by Problem 23 | |
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