25 rectangles

Geometry Level 2

A rectangle is divided into 25 smaller rectangles, the perimeters of 9 of which are known to us by the numbers in the figure (which is not drawn to scale).

What is the perimeter of the pink rectangle?

46 47 48 49 50

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The sum of the Xrectangles' perimeters is equal to the big rectangle's perimeter, since any two of them is in a different row and in a different column.

The sum of the Yrectangles' perimeters is equal to the big rectangle's perimeter, since any two of them is in a different row and in a different column.

So the perimeter of the big rectangle is 46 + 47 + 45 + 49 + 50 = 237 46+47+45+49+50=237 .

From that the perimeter of the pink rectangle is: 237 ( 45 + 48 + 51 + 46 ) = 47 237-(45+48+51+46)=\boxed{47}

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Áron Bán-Szabó - 3 years, 10 months ago

Let the width of n n th column (from left to right) be w n w_n and the height of n n th row (from top to bottom) be h n h_n . Then the perimeter of the pink rectangle is p = 2 ( w 5 + h 5 ) p=2(w_5+h_5) .

Consider the orange and yellow rectangle of the 3rd column, we have:

{ 2 ( w 3 + h 4 ) = 45 w 3 + h 4 = 22.5 . . . ( 1 ) 2 ( w 3 + h 5 ) = 46 w 3 + h 4 = 23 . . . ( 2 ) \begin{cases} 2(w_3+h_4) = 45 & \implies w_3+h_4 = 22.5 & ...(1) \\ 2(w_3+h_5) = 46 & \implies w_3+h_4 = 23 & ...(2) \end{cases}

( 2 ) ( 1 ) : h 5 h 4 = 0.5 h 4 = h 5 0.5 (2)-(1): \implies h_5-h_4 = 0.5 \implies h_4 = h_5 - 0.5 . Similarly, column 1: h 3 = h 4 + 0.5 = h 5 h_3 = h_4+0.5 = h_5 , column 4: h 1 = h 3 + 0.5 = h 5 + 0.5 h_1 = h_3 + 0.5 = h_5+0.5 . Similar for row 2: w 2 = w 5 + 1 w_2 = w_5 + 1

We note thatf for red ractangle

2 ( w 2 + h 1 ) = 50 2 ( w 5 + 1 + h 5 + 0.5 ) = 50 2 ( w 5 + h 5 ) + 3 = 50 2 ( w 5 + h 5 ) = 47 \begin{aligned}2(w_2+h_1) & = 50 \\ 2(w_5+1+h_5+0.5) & = 50 \\ 2(w_5+h_5)+3 & = 50 \\ \implies 2(w_5+h_5) & = \boxed{47} \end{aligned}

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