2016 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 22
Rectangle 
below is a 
rectangle with 
. What is the area of the "bat wings" (shaded area)?
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Solution
The area of trapezoid 
is 
. Next, we find the height of each triangle to calculate their area. The triangles are similar, and are in a 
ratio[SOMEBODY PROVE THIS], so the height of the larger one is 
while the height of the smaller one is 
Thus, their areas are 
and 
. Subtracting these areas from the trapezoid, we get 
. Therefore, the answer to this problem is 
Solution 2
Setting coordinates!
Let 
, 
Now, we easily discover that line 
has lattice coordinates at 
and 
. Hence, the slope of line 
Plugging in the rest of the coordinate points, we find that line 
Doing the same process to line 
, we find that line 
.
Hence, setting them equal to find the intersection point...
.
Hence, we find that the intersection point is 
. Call it Z.
Now, we can see that
.
Shoelace!
Using the well known Shoelace Formula(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula), we find that the area of one of those small shaded triangles is 
.
Now because there are two of them, we multiple that area by 
to get
