2022 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 18
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Problem
The midpoints of the four sides of a rectangle are and
What is the
area of the rectangle?
Solution 1
The midpoints of the four sides of every rectangle are the vertices of a rhombus whose area is half the area of the rectangle.
Note that and
are the vertices of a rhombus whose diagonals have lengths
and
It follows that the area of rhombus
is
so the area of the rectangle is
~MRENTHUSIASM
Solution 2
If a rectangle has area , then the area of the quadrilateral formed by its midpoints is
.
Define points and
as Solution 1 does. Since
are the midpoints of the rectangle, its area is
. Now, note that
is a parallelogram since
and
. As the parallelogram's altitude from
to
is
and
, its area is
. Therefore, the area of the rectangle is
.
~Fruitz
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