2001 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 7
To promote her school's annual Kite Olympics, Genevieve makes a small kite and a large kite for a bulletin board display. The kites look like the one in the diagram. For her small kite Genevieve draws the kite on a one-inch grid. For the large kite she triples both the height and width of the entire grid.
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[hide]Problem
What is the number of square inches in the area of the small kite?
Solution 1
The area of a kite is half the product of its diagonals. The diagonals have lengths of 
and 
, so the area is 
.
Solution 2
Drawing in the diagonals of the kite will form four right triangles on the "inside" part of the grid. Drawing in the border of the 7 by 6 grid will form four right triangles on the "outside" part of the grid. Since each right triangle on the inside can be paired with a congruent right triangle that is on the outside, the area of the kite is half the total area of the grid, or .
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