2008 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 23
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Problem
In square ,
and
. What is the ratio of the area of
to the area of square
?
Solution 1
The area of is the area of square
subtracted by the the area of the three triangles around it. Arbitrarily assign the side length of the square to be
.
The ratio of the area of to the area of
is
Solution 2
Say that has length
, and that from there we can infer that
. We also know that
, and that
. The area of triangle
is the square's area subtracted from the area of the excess triangles, which is simply these equations:
Thus, the area of the triangle is
. We can now put the ratio of triangle
's area to the area of the square
as a fraction. We have:
Thus, our answer is
,
.
~Mr.BigBrain_AoPS
Video Solution by OmegaLearn
https://youtu.be/abSgjn4Qs34?t=528
~ pi_is_3.14
Video Solution 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cTv1aoGTy0
This video was recorded in vertical accidentally.
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