2019 AIME I Problems/Problem 3
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[hide]Problem 3
In ,
,
, and
. Points
and
lie on
, points
and
lie on
, and points
and
lie on
, with
. Find the area of hexagon
.
Solution 1
We know the area of the hexagon to be
. Since
, we know that
is a right triangle. Thus the area of
is
. Another way to compute the area is
Then the area of
. Preceding in a similar fashion for
, the area of
is
. Since
, the area of
. Thus our desired answer is
Solution 2
Let be the origin. Noticing that the triangle is a 3-4-5 right triangle, we can see that
, and
. Using the shoelace theorem, the area is
.
Shoelace theorem:Suppose the polygon
has vertices
,
, ... ,
, listed in clockwise order. Then the area of
is
You can also go counterclockwise order, as long as you find the absolute value of the answer.
.
Solution 3 (Easiest, uses only basic geometry too)
Note that has area
and is a 3-4-5 right triangle. Then, by similar triangles, the altitude from
to
has length 3 and the altitude from
to
has length 4, so
, meaning that
.
-Stormersyle
Solution 4
Knowing that has area 150 and is a 3-4-5 triangle, we can find the area of the smaller triangles
,
, and
and subtract them from
to obtain our answer. First off, we know
has area
since it is a right triangle. To the find the areas of
and
, we can use Law of Cosines (
) to find the lengths of
and
, respectively. Computing gives
and
. Now, using Heron's Formula, we find
and
. Adding these and subtracting from
, we get
-Starsher
Video Solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jOfXNiQ6WM
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