2008 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 24
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Problem
Quadrilateral has
, angle
and angle
. What is the measure of angle
?
Solution 1
This solution requires the use of cyclic quadrilateral properties but could be a bit time-consuming during the contest.
To start off, draw a diagram like in solution one and label the points. Now draw and
and call their intersection point
. Note that triangle
is an isosceles triangle so angles
and
are each
degrees. Since
equals
, angle
equals
degrees, thus making angle
equal to
degrees. We can also find out that angle CYB equals
degrees. Extend point
such that it lies on the same level of segment
. Call this point
. Since angle
plus angle
equals
degrees, quadrilateral
is a cyclic quadrilateral. Next, draw a line from point
to point
. Since angle
and angle
point to the same arc, angle
is equal to
. Since
is an isosceles triangle (based on angle properties) and
is also an isosceles triangle, we can find that
is also an isosceles triangle. Thus, each of the other angles is
degrees. Finally, we have angle
equals
degrees.
Solution 2
First, connect the diagonal , then, draw line
such that it is congruent to
and is parallel to
. Because triangle
is isosceles and angle
is
, the angles
and
are both
. Because angle
is
, we get angle
is
. Next, noticing parallel lines
and
and transversal
, we see that angle
is also
, and subtracting off angle
gives that angle
is
.
Now, because we drew , triangle
is equilateral. We can also conclude that
meaning that triangle
is isosceles, and angles
and
are equal.
Finally, we can set up our equation. Denote angle as
. Then, because
is a parallelogram, the angle
is also
. Then,
is
. Again because
is a parallelogram, angle
is
. Subtracting angle
gives that angle
equals
. Because angle
equals angle
, we get
, solving into
.
Side note: this solution was inspired by some basic angle chasing and finding some 60 degree angles, which made me want to create equilateral triangles.
~Someonenumber011
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