2006 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 13

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Problem

Rhombus $ABCD$ is similar to rhombus $BFDE$ . The area of rhombus $ABCD$ is 24, and $\angle BAD \equal{} 60^\circ$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg). What is the area of rhombus $BFDE$ ?

$[asy] defaultpen(linewidth(0.7)+fontsize(11)); pair A=origin, B=(2,0), C=(3, sqrt(3)), D=(1, sqrt(3)), E=(1, 1/sqrt(3)), F=(2, 2/sqrt(3)); pair point=(3/2, sqrt(3)/2); draw(B--C--D--A--B--F--D--E--B); label("$A$", A, dir(point--A)); label("$B$", B, dir(point--B)); label("$C$", C, dir(point--C)); label("$D$", D, dir(point--D)); label("$E$", E, dir(point--E)); label("$F$", F, dir(point--F)); [/asy]$

$\textrm{(A) } 6 \qquad \textrm{(B) } 4\sqrt {3} \qquad \textrm{(C) } 8 \qquad \textrm{(D) } 9 \qquad \textrm{(E) } 6\sqrt {3}$

Solution

the square of the ratio of any linear length on ABCD to the corresponding linear length on BFDE is equal to the ratio of their areas. because angle BAD=60 degrees, triangle ADB and triangle DBC are equilateral and DB is equal to the other sides of rhombus ABCD. therefore, AC=DB/2*sqrt(3)*2=DB*sqrt(3). DB and AC are the longer diagonal of rhombuses BEDF and ABCD, respectively. so the ratio of their areas is (1/sqrt(3))^2=1/3. area ABCD=24, so area BEDF=8 and the answer is C

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