2017 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 22
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Problem
The diameter of a circle of radius
is extended to a point
outside the circle so that
. Point
is chosen so that
and line
is perpendicular to line
. Segment
intersects the circle at a point
between
and
. What is the area of
?
Solution 1
Notice that and
are right triangles. Then
.
, so
. We also find that
(You can also use power of point ~MATHWIZARD2010), and thus the area of
is
.
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Solution 2
We note that by
similarity. Also, since the area of
and
,
, so the area of
.
Solution 3
As stated before, note that is similar to
. By similarity, we note that
is equivalent to
. We set
to
and
to
. By the Pythagorean Theorem,
. Combining,
. We can add and divide to get
. We square root and rearrange to get
. We know that the legs of the triangle are
and
. Multiplying
by
and
eventually gives us
. We divide this by
, since
is the formula for a triangle. This gives us
.
Solution 4
Let's call the center of the circle that segment is the diameter of,
. Note that
is an isosceles right triangle. Solving for side
, using the Pythagorean theorem, we find it to be
. Calling the point where segment
intersects circle
, the point
, segment
would be
. Also, noting that
is a right triangle, we solve for side
, using the Pythagorean Theorem, and get
. Using Power of Point on point
, we can solve for
. We can subtract
from
to find
and then solve for
using Pythagorean theorem once more.
= (Diameter of circle
+
)
=
=
=
-
=
Now to solve for :
-
=
+
=
=
Note that is a right triangle because the hypotenuse is the diameter of the circle. Solving for area using the bases
and
, we get the area of triangle
to be
.
Solution 5 (Coordinate Geo)
Drawing the picture, we realize that the equation for the line from A to E is , and the equation for the circle is
plugging in
for y we get
so
, that means
the height is and the base is
, so the area is
-harsha12345
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