2005 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 15
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Let be a diameter of a circle and be a point on with . Let and be points on the circle such that and is a second diameter. What is the ratio of the area of to the area of ?
Solution
Solution 1
Notice that the bases of both triangles are diameters of the circle. Hence the ratio of the areas is just the ratio of the heights of the triangles, or ( is the foot of the perpendicular from to ).
Call the radius . Then , . Using the Pythagorean Theorem in , we get .
Now we have to find . Notice , so we can write the proportion:
By the Pythagorean Theorem in , we have .
Our answer is .
Solution 2
Let the center of the circle be .
Note that .
is midpoint of .
is midpoint of Area of Area of Area of Area of .
Solution 3
Let be the radius of the circle. Note that so .
By Power of a Point Theorem, , and thus
Then the area of is . Similarly, the area of is , so the desired ratio is
Solution 4
Let the center of the circle be . Without loss of generality, let the radius of the circle be equal to . Thus, and . As a consequence of , and . Also, we know that and are both equal to due to the fact that they are both radii. Thus from the Pythagorean Theorem, we have DC being equal to or . Now we know that the area of is equal to or . Know we need to find the area of . By simple inspection due to angles being equal and CPCTC. Thus and . Know we know the area of or . We also know that the area of or . Thus the area of or . We also can calculate the area of to be or . Thus is equal to + or or . The ratio between and is equal to or .
Solution 5
We will use the shoelace formula. Our origin is the center of the circle. Denote the ordered pair for , and notice how is a 180 degree rotation of , using the rotation matrix formula we get . WLOG say that this circle has radius . We can now find points , , and which are , , and respectively. By shoelace the area of is , and the area of is . Using division we get that the answer is .
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