2022 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 16

The following problem is from both the 2022 AMC 10B #16 and 2022 AMC 12B #13, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths 4 and 8 and a square with side length 5. Three vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle, as shown. What is the area of the region inside both the square and the rectangle?

$[asy] import olympiad; size(200); defaultpen(linewidth(1) + fontsize(10)); pair A = (0,0), B = (1,0), C = (4,0), D = (8,0), K = (0,4), F = (1,4), G = (7.25, 4), H = (8, 4), I = (8,3), J = (5, 7); fill(F--G--I--C--F--cycle, grey); draw(A--D--H--K--A^^B--F^^F--C--I--J--F^^rightanglemark(F,J,I)^^rightanglemark(F,B,C)); label("8",C,S); label("5",(3, 5.5),NW); label("4",(8, 2), E); [/asy]$

$\textbf{(A) }15\frac{1}{8}\qquad \textbf{(B) }15\frac{3}{8}\qquad \textbf{(C) }15\frac{1}{2}\qquad \textbf{(D) }15\frac{5}{8}\qquad \textbf{(E) }15\frac{7}{8}$

Solution

Let us label the points on the diagram.

$[asy] import olympiad; size(200); defaultpen(linewidth(1) + fontsize(10)); pair A = (0,0), B = (1,0), C = (4,0), D = (8,0), K = (0,4), F = (1,4), G = (7.25, 4), H = (8, 4), I = (8,3), J = (5, 7); fill(F--G--I--C--F--cycle, grey); markscalefactor=0.05; draw(A--D--H--K--A^^B--F^^F--C--I--J--F^^rightanglemark(F,J,I)^^rightanglemark(F,B,C)^^anglemark(D,C,I)^^anglemark(B,F,C)^^anglemark(H,I,G)); draw(anglemark(F,C,B)^^anglemark(C,I,D)^^anglemark(I,G,H)); markscalefactor=0.041; draw(anglemark(F,C,B)^^anglemark(C,I,D)^^anglemark(I,G,H)); label("8",(4,-.5),S); label("5",(3, 5.5),NW); label("4",(8.25, 2), E); label("A", F, NW); label("B", B, S); label("C", C, S); label("D", D, SE); label("E", I, E); label("F", H, NE); label("G", G, NE); label("4", (1,2), E); label("5", (2.5,2), SW); label("3", (2.5,0), S); label("4", (6,0), S); label("5", (6,1.5), SE); label("3", (8, 1.5), E); label("1", (8, 3.5), E); [/asy]$

By doing some angle chasing using the fact that $\angle ACE$ and $\angle CEG$ are right angles, we find that $\angle BAC \cong \angle DCE \cong \angle FEG$ . Similarly, $\angle ACB \cong \angle CED \cong \angle EGF$ . Therefore, $\triangle ABC \sim \triangle CDE \sim \triangle EFG$ .

As we are given a rectangle and a square, $AB = 4$ and $AC = 5$ . Therefore, $\triangle ABC$ is a 3-4-5 right triangle and $BC = 3$ .

$CE$ is also $5$ . So, using the similar triangles, $CD = 4$ and $DE = 3$ .

$EF = DF - DE = 4 - 3 = 1$ . Using the similar triangles again, $EF$ is $\frac14$ of the corresponding $AB$ . So,

$\begin{align*} [\triangle EFG] &= \left(\frac14\right)^2 \cdot [\triangle ABC] \\ &= \frac{1}{16} \cdot 6 \\ &= \frac38. \end{align*}$

Finally, we have

$\begin{align*} [ACEG] &= [ABDF] - [\triangle ABC] - [\triangle CDE] - [\triangle EFG] \\ &= 7 \cdot 4 - \frac12 \cdot 3 \cdot 4 - \frac12 \cdot 3 \cdot 4 - \frac38 \\ &= 28 - 6 - 6 - \frac38 \\ &= \boxed{\textbf{(D)}\ 15 \frac{5}{8}}. \end{align*}$

~Connor132435

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