2001 AMC 12 Problems/Problem 22
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Problem
In rectangle , points
and
lie on
so that
and
is the midpoint of
. Also,
intersects
at
and
at
. The area of the rectangle
is
. Find the area of triangle
.
Solution 1
Note that the triangles
and
are similar, as they have the same angles. Hence
.
Also, triangles and
are similar, hence
.
We can now compute as
. We have:
.
is
of
, as these two triangles have the same base
, and
is
of
, therefore also the height from
onto
is
of the height from
. Hence
.
is
of
, as the base
is
of the base
, and the height from
is
of the height from
. Hence
.
is
of
for similar reasons, hence
.
Therefore .
Solution 2
As in the previous solution, we note the similar triangles and prove that is in
and
in
of
.
We can then compute that .
As is the midpoint of
, the height from
onto
is
of the height from
onto
. Therefore we have
.
Solution 3
Because we see that there are only lines and there is a rectangle, we can coordbash (place this figure on coordinates). Because this is a general figure, we can assume the sides are and
(or any other two positive real numbers that multiply to 70). We can find
and
by intersecting lines, and then we calculate the area of
using shoelace formula. This yields
.
Solution 4
Note that triangle is similar to triangle
with ratio
. Similarly, triangle
is similar to triangle
with ratio
. Thus, if
then we know that
and
meaning
and thus the ratio of
to
is
which equals the ratio of the areas of
to
. If
, then we know that
and since
and we want to find
of this, we get our answer is
. -SuperJJ
Solution 5
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
Solution 6 (Mass Points)
We need one more pair of ratios to fully define our mass point system. Let's use and now do mass points on
:
Now it's just a standard "Area Reduction by Ratios"™ problem going from:
or,
~ proloto
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