# Difference between revisions of "2001 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 9"

## Problem

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.

$[asy] for (int a = 0; a < 7; ++a) { for (int b = 0; b < 8; ++b) { dot((a,b)); } } draw((3,0)--(0,5)--(3,7)--(6,5)--cycle); [/asy]$

The large kite is covered with gold foil. The foil is cut from a rectangular piece that just covers the entire grid. How many square inches of waste material are cut off from the four corners?

$\text{(A)}\ 63 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 72 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 180 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 189 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 264$

## Solution

The large grid has dimensions three times that of the small grid, so its dimensions are $3(6)\times3(7)$, or $18\times21$, so the area is $(18)(21)=378$. The area of the kite is half of the area of the rectangle as you can see. Thus, the area of the kite is $378/2=189, \boxed{\text{D}}$.