2024 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 10
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[hide]Problem
Quadrilateral is a parallelogram, and
is the midpoint of the side
. Let
be the intersection of lines
and
. What is the ratio of the area of
quadrilateral
to the area of
?
Solution 1
Let have length
and let the altitude of the parallelogram perpendicular to
have length
.
The area of the parallelogram is and the area of
equals
. Thus, the area of quadrilateral
is
.
We have from that
. Also,
, so the length of the altitude of
from
is twice that of
. This means that the altitude of
is
, so the area of
is
.
Then, the area of quadrilateral equals the area of
minus that of
, which is
. Finally, the ratio of the area of
to the area of triangle
is
, so the answer is
.
Solution 2
Let . Since
with a scale factor of
,
. The scale factor of
also means that
, therefore since
and
have the same height,
. Since
is a parallelogram,
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