2007 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 19
Problem
Triangles and
have areas
and
respectively, with
and
What is the sum of all possible x coordinates of
?
Solution
Solution 1
From , we have that the height of
is
. Thus
lies on the lines
.
using 45-45-90 triangles, so in
we have that
. The slope of
is
, so the equation of the line is
. The point
lies on one of two parallel lines that are
units away from
. Now take an arbitrary point on the line
and draw the perpendicular to one of the parallel lines; then draw a line straight down from the same arbitrary point. These form a 45-45-90
, so the straight line down has a length of
. Now we note that the y-intercept of the parallel lines is either
units above or below the y-intercept of line
; hence the equation of the parallel lines is
.
We just need to find the intersections of these two lines and sum up the values of the x-coordinates. Substituting the into
, we get
.
Solution 2
We are finding the intersection of two pairs of parallel lines, which will form a parallelogram. The centroid of this parallelogram is just the intersection of and
, which can easily be calculated to be
. Now the sum of the x-coordinates is just
.
See also
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