2024 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 22

Problem

Let $\mathcal K$ be the kite formed by joining two right triangles with legs $1$ and $\sqrt3$ along a common hypotenuse. Eight copies of $\mathcal K$ are used to form the polygon shown below. What is the area of triangle $\Delta ABC$ ?

$\textbf{(A) }2+3\sqrt3\qquad\textbf{(B) }\dfrac92\sqrt3\qquad\textbf{(C) }\dfrac{10+8\sqrt3}{3}\qquad\textbf{(D) }8\qquad\textbf{(E) }5\sqrt3$

Solution 1

Let $\mathcal K$ be quadrilateral MNOP. Drawing line MO splits the triangle into $\Delta MNO$ . Drawing the altitude from N to point Q on line MO, we know NQ is $\sqrt3/2$ , MQ is $3/2$ , and QO is $1/2$ .

Due to the many similarities present, we can find that AB is $4(MQ)$ , and the height of $\Delta ABC$ is $NQ+MN$

AB is $4(3/2)=6$ and the height of $\Delta ABC$ is $\sqrt3+\sqrt3/2=3\sqrt3/2$ .

Solving for the area of $\Delta ABC$ gives $6*3\sqrt3/2*1/2$ which is $\textbf{(B) }\dfrac92\sqrt3\qquad$

~9897 (latex beginner here)

Solution 2

Let's start by looking at kite $\mathcal K$ . We can quickly deduce based off of the side lengths that the kite can be split into two $30-60-90$ triangles. Going back to the triangle $\triangle ABC$ , focus on side $AB$ . There are $4$ kites, they are all either reflected over the line $AB$ or a line perpendicular to $AB$ , meaning the length of $AB$ can be split up into 4 equal parts.

Pick out the bottom-left kite, and we can observe that the kite and the triangle formed by the intersection of the kite and $\Delta ABC$ share a $60$ degree angle. (this was deduced from the $30-60-90$ triangles in the kite) The line AB and the right side of the kite are perpendicular, forming a $90^{\circ}$ angle. Because that is also a $30-60-90$ triangle with a hypotenuse of $\sqrt3$ , so we find the length of AB to be $4*3/2$ , which is $6$ .

Then, we can drop an altitude from $C$ to $AB$ . We know that will be equivalent to the sum of the longer side of the kite and the shorter side of the triangle formed by the intersection of the kite and $\Delta ABC$ . (Look at the line formed on the left of $C$ that drops down to $AB$ if you are confused) We already have those values from the $30-60-90$ triangles, so we can just plug it into the triangle area formula, $bh/2$ . We get $6\cdot\dfrac{\sqrt3+\frac{\sqrt3}{2}}{2}\rightarrow3\cdot(\sqrt3+\dfrac{\sqrt3}{2})\rightarrow3\cdot\dfrac{\sqrt3}{2}\rightarrow\boxed{\textbf{(B) }\dfrac92\sqrt3}$

~YTH (Need help with Latex and formatting)

~WIP (Header)

~Tacos_are_yummy_1 ( $\LaTeX$ & Formatting)

Solution 3

(latexing a WIP) ~mathboy282

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