2024 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 14

The following problem is from both the 2024 AMC 12A #14 and 2024 AMC 10A #18, so both problems redirect to this page.

Problem

Points $X$ and $Y$ lie on sides $\overline{BC}$ and $\overline{CD}$ , respectively, of parallelogram $ABCD$ such that $\angle AXC = \angle AYC = 90^{\circ}$ . Suppose $BX = 5$ and $DY = 3$ , as shown. If $ABCD$ has perimeter $48$ , what is its area?

$[asy] import olympiad; import graph; size(8cm); real labelscalefactor = 0.5; /* changes label-to-point distance */ pen dps = linewidth(0.7) + fontsize(10); defaultpen(dps); /* default pen style */ pen dotstyle = black; /* point style */ pair A = (0, 0), B = (15, 0), C = (12, -6 * sqrt(2)), D = (-3, -6 * sqrt(2)); pair X = (15 - 3 * 5/9, -6 * sqrt(2) * 5 / 9); pair Y = (0, -6 * sqrt(2)); dot(A); dot(B); dot(C); dot(D); dot(X); dot(Y); draw(A--B--C--D--cycle); draw(A--X); draw(A--Y); draw(rightanglemark(A,X,C,15)); draw(rightanglemark(A,Y,C,15)); label("$A$", A, N * 1.5); label("$B$", B, N * 1.5); label("$C$", C, S * 1.5); label("$D$", D, S * 1.5); label("$X$", X, E * 1.5); label("$Y$", Y, S * 1.5); label("$3$", midpoint(D--Y), S * 1.5); label("$5$", midpoint(B--X), E * 1.5); [/asy]$

$\textbf{(A)}~40\sqrt{5}\qquad\textbf{(B)}~56\sqrt{3}\qquad\textbf{(C)}~48\sqrt{7}\qquad\textbf{(D)}~90\sqrt{2}\qquad\textbf{(E)}~60\sqrt{5}$

Solution

Note that opposite angles in a parallelogram are equal, so $\angle ADY = \angle ABX$ . Also, $\angle AYD = \angle AXB = 90^{\circ}$ , so $\triangle AYD \sim \triangle AXB$ . The ratio of similarity of these triangles is $\tfrac{AB}{AD} = \tfrac{BX}{DY} = \tfrac{5}{3}$ , so let $AB = 5x$ and $AD = 3x$ . The perimeter of $ABCD$ is $5x + 3x + 5x + 3x = 16x = 48$ , so $x = 3$ . Therefore $AD = 3 \cdot 3 = 9$ , $AB = 5 \cdot 3 = 15$ , and the area of $ABCD$ is $AY \cdot AB = \sqrt{9^{2} - 3^{2}} \cdot 15 = \sqrt{72} \cdot 15 = 6\sqrt{2} \cdot 15 = \boxed{\textbf{(D)}~90\sqrt{2}}$ .

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