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Revision as of 10:22, 30 March 2015
Problem
Triangle has side lengths
,
, and
. Rectangle
has vertex
on
, vertex
on
, and vertices
and
on
. In terms of the side length
, the area of
can be expressed as the quadratic polynomial
Area() =
.
Then the coefficient , where
and
are relatively prime positive integers. Find
.
Solution 1
If , the area of rectangle
is
, so
and . If
, we can reflect
over PQ,
over
, and
over
to completely cover rectangle
, so the area of
is half the area of the triangle. Using Heron's formula, since
,
so
and
so the answer is .
Solution 2
Similar triangles can also solve the problem.
First, solve for the area of the triangle. . This can be done by Heron's Formula or placing an
right triangle on
and solving. (The
side would be collinear with line
)
After finding the area, solve for the altitude to . Let
be the intersection of the altitude from
and side
. Then
.
Solving for
using the Pythagorean Formula, we get
. We then know that
.
Now consider the rectangle . Since
is collinear with
and parallel to
,
is parallel to
meaning
is similar to
.
Let be the intersection between
and
. By the similar triangles, we know that
. Since
. We can solve for
and
in terms of
. We get that
and
.
Let's work with . We know that
is parallel to
so
is similar to
. We can set up the proportion:
. Solving for
,
.
We can solve for then since we know that
and
.
Therefore, .
This means that .
- solution by abvenkgoo
Solution 3
Heron's Formula gives so the altitude from
to
has length
Now, draw a parallel to from
, intersecting
at
. Then
in parallelogram
, and so
. Clearly,
and
are similar triangles, and so their altitudes have lengths proportional to their corresponding base sides, and so
Solving gives
, so the answer is
.
- solution by suli
See also
2015 AIME II (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
Preceded by Problem 6 |
Followed by Problem 8 | |
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 | ||
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