2014 AIME I Problems/Problem 13
Problem 13
On square , points
, and
lie on sides
and
respectively, so that
and
. Segments
and
intersect at a point
, and the areas of the quadrilaterals
and
are in the ratio
Find the area of square
.
Solution
Notice that . This means
passes through the center of the square.
Draw with
on
,
on
such that
and
intersects at the center of the square which I'll label as
.
Let the area of the square be . Then the area of
and the area of
. This is because
is perpendicular to
(given in the problem), so
is also perpendicular to
. These two orthogonal lines also pass through the center of the square, so they split it into 4 congruent quadrilaterals.
Let the side length of the square be .
Draw and intersects
at
.
.
The area of , so the area of
.
Let . Then
Consider the area of .
Thus, .
Solving , we get
.
Therefore, the area of
Lazy Solution
, a multiple of
. In addition,
, which is
.
Therefore, we suspect the square of the "hypotenuse" of a right triangle, corresponding to
and
must be a multiple of
. All of these triples are primitive:
The sides of the square can only equal the longer leg, or else the lines would have to extend outside of the square. Substituting :
Thus, is the only valid answer.
Solution 3
Continue in the same way as solution 1 to get that POK has area 3a, and OK = d/10. You can then find PK has length 3/2.
Then, if we drop a perpendicular from H to BC get L, We get HLF ~ OPK.
Thus, , and we know HL = d, and HF = 34. Thus, we can set up an equation in terms of d using the Pythagorean theorem.
is extraneous, so
. Since the area is d^2, we have it is equal to
-Alexlikemath
See also
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