If the larger base of an isosceles trapezoid equals to its diagonal and the smaller base of the same trapezoid equals to its altitude. If the ratio of the smaller base to the larger base is . What is .
This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try
refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and,
finally, (c)
loading the
non-javascript version of this page
. We're sorry about the hassle.
From the above figure we notice that:
a + 2 y = x … 1
( a + y ) 2 + a 2 = x 2 … 2
Plugging the value of x in 2 , we obtain:
( a + y ) 2 + a 2 = ( a + 2 y ) 2 ⟹ a 2 + y 2 + 2 a y + a 2 = a 2 + 4 a y + 4 y 2 ⟹ 3 y 2 + 2 a y − a 2 = 0 ⟹ y = 3 a
But, we know that x = 2 y + a ⟹ x = 3 2 a + a = 3 5 a ⟹ y x = 5 3 ⟹ A = 3 , B = 5 , A + B = 8