Mock AIME 2 2006-2007 Problems/Problem 12
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Problem
In quadrilateral and is defined to be the intersection of the diagonals of . If , and the area of is where are relatively prime positive integers, find
Note*: and refer to the areas of triangles and
Solution
is a cylic quadrilateral.
Let
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Also, from the Power of a Point Theorem,
Notice
It is given
Note that
Then and
Thus we need to find
Note that is isosceles with sides so we can draw the altitude from D to split it to two right triangles.
Thus
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Problem Source
AoPS users 4everwise and Altheman collaborated to create this problem.