2005 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 23
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Let be a diameter of a circle and let be a point on with . Let and be points on the circle such that and is a second diameter. What is the ratio of the area of to the area of ?
Solution 1
Let us assume that the diameter is of length .
is of diameter and is .
is the radius of the circle, so using the Pythagorean theorem height of is . This is also the height of the .
Area of the is = .
The height of can be found using the area of and as base.
Hence the height of is = .
The diameter is the base for both the triangles and .
Hence, the ratio of the area of to the area of is =
Solution 2
Since and share a base, the ratio of their areas is the ratio of their altitudes. Draw the altitude from to .
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Since , then . So the ratio of the two altitudes is
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