2021 AIME II Problems/Problem 2
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Problem
Equilateral triangle has side length
. Point
lies on the same side of line
as
such that
. The line
through
parallel to line
intersects sides
and
at points
and
, respectively. Point
lies on
such that
is between
and
,
is isosceles, and the ratio of the area of
to the area of
is
. Find
.
Diagram
Solution 1
By angle-chasing, is a
triangle, and
is a
triangle.
Let It follows that
and
By the side-length ratios in
we have
and
The area of is
and the area of
is
~MRENTHUSIASM
Solution 2
We express the areas of and
in terms of
in order to solve for
We let Because
is isosceles and
is equilateral,
Let the height of be
and the height of
be
Then we have that
and
Now we can find and
in terms of
Because we are given that
This allows us to use the sin formula for triangle area: the area of
is
Similarly, because
the area of
Now we can make an equation:
To make further calculations easier, we scale everything down by (while keeping the same variable names, so keep that in mind).
Thus Because we scaled down everything by
the actual value of
is
~JimY
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