2020 AIME I Problems/Problem 15
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Problem
Solution
The following is a simple power of a point solution to this menace of a problem:
Let points be what they appear as in the diagram below. Note that is not insignificant; from here, we set
by PoP and trivial construction. Now,
is the reflection of
over
. Note
, and therefore by Pythagorean theorem we have
. Consider
. We have that
, and therefore we are ready to PoP with respect to
. Setting
, we obtain
by PoP on
, and furthermore, we have
. Now, we get
, and from
we take
However, squaring and manipulating with
yields that
and from here, since
we get the area to be
. ~awang11's sol
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