2014 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 13
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Problem
Equilateral has side length
, and squares
,
,
lie outside the triangle. What is the area of hexagon
?
Solution 1
The area of the equilateral triangle is . The area of the three squares is
.
Since ,
.
Dropping an altitude from to
allows to create a
triangle since
is isosceles. This means that the height of
is
and half the length of
is
. Therefore, the area of each isosceles triangle is
. Multiplying by
yields
for all three isosceles triangles.
Therefore, the total area is .
Solution 2
As seen in the previous solution, segment is
. Think of the picture as one large equilateral triangle,
2\sqrt{3}+1
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\triangle{JKL}$$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)\dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{4}(2\sqrt{3}+1)^2=\dfrac{12+13\sqrt{3}}{4}$.
Triangles ,
, and
have sides of
, so their total area is
.
Now, you subtract their total area from the area of :
(Solution by Pyson)
See Also
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