2020 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 18
Rectangle is inscribed in a semicircle with diameter
as shown in the figure. Let
and let
What is the area of
Solution
First, realize is not a square. It can easily be seen that the diameter of the semicircle is
, so the radius is
. Express the area of Rectangle
as
, where
. Notice that by the Pythagorean theorem
. Then, the area of Rectangle
is equal to
. ~icematrix
Solution 2
We have , as it is a radius, and
since it is half of
. This means that
. So
~yofro
Solution 3 (coordinate bashing)
Let the midpoint of segment be the origin. Evidently, point
is at
and
is at
. Since points
and
share x-coordinates with
and
, respectively, we can just find the y-coordinate of
(which is just the width of the rectangle) and multiply this by
, or
. Since the radius of the semicircle is
, or
, the equation of the circle that our semicircle is a part of is
. Since we know that the x-coordinate of
is
, we can plug this into our equation to obtain that
. Since
, as the diagram suggests, we know that the y-coordinate of
is
. Therefore, our answer is
, or
.
NOTE: The synthetic solution is definitely faster and more elegant. However, this is the solution that you should use if you can't see any other easier solution.
- StarryNight7210
Solution 4
First, realize that is not a square. Let
be the midpoint of
. Since
, we have
because they are all radii. Since
is also the midpoint of
, we have
. By the Pythagorean Theorem on
, we find that
. The answer is then
.
-franzliszt
See also
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