2018 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 8
Problem
Line segment is a diameter of a circle with . Point , not equal to or , lies on the circle. As point moves around the circle, the centroid (center of mass) of traces out a closed curve missing two points. To the nearest positive integer, what is the area of the region bounded by this curve?
Solution
For each note that the length of one median is Let be the centroid of It follows that
Two shapes of namely and with their respective centroids and are shown below: Therefore, point traces out a circle (missing two points) with the center and the radius as indicated in red. To the nearest positive integer, the area of the region bounded by the red curve is
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See Also
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