A Square Problem .

Geometry Level 3

A B C D ABCD is a square and K K is midpoint of B D |BD| . Point E E is on C K |CK| such that E D C = E C A \angle EDC=\angle ECA . What is the ratio of the area of A K E \triangle AKE to the area of A B C D ABCD ?


The answer is 0.1.

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2 solutions

İlker Can Erten
Nov 23, 2019

E D C = E C A \angle EDC= \angle ECA Hence E C D = E D K \angle ECD= \angle EDK and D E C = 9 0 \angle DEC = 90^\circ

Let C D = x |CD|=x and E D = y |ED|=y ; C D K D = E D K E = C E E D \frac{|CD|}{|KD|}=\frac{|ED|}{|KE|}=\frac{|CE|}{|ED|}

x x 2 = y K E = C E y = 2 \frac{x}{\frac{x}{2}}=\frac{y}{|KE|}=\frac{|CE|}{y}=2 hence K E = y 2 |KE|=\frac{y}{2} and C E = 2 y |CE|=2y

Let F F be point on [ C K ] [CK] such that [ A F ] [ C K ] [AF]⟂[CK]

A C = C D = x |AC|=|CD|=x Hence A F C △AFC and E C D △ECD are congruent and A F = 2 y |AF|=2y

Area of A K E △AKE is 2 y y 2 2 = y 2 2 \frac{2y \cdot \frac{y}{2}}{2}=\frac{y^{2}}{2}

Area of A B C D ABCD is x 2 x^{2} and 5 y 2 = x 2 y 2 x 2 = 1 5 5y^{2}=x^{2}\Rightarrow \frac{y^{2}}{x^{2}}=\frac{1}{5} (Pythagoras Theorem)

Required ratio is y 2 2 x 2 = y 2 2 x 2 = 1 10 = 0.1 \frac{ \frac{y^{2}}{2}}{x^{2}}=\frac{y^{2}}{2x^{2}}=\frac{1}{10}=\boxed{0.1}

Chew-Seong Cheong
Nov 24, 2019

Note that D E K \triangle DEK and C D E \triangle CDE are similar. Since D K C D = 1 2 \dfrac {DK}{CD} = \dfrac 12 , the ratio of the areas of the two triangles [ D E K ] [ C D E ] = 1 4 \dfrac {[DEK]}{[CDE]} = \dfrac 14 . Since D E K \triangle DEK and C D E \triangle CDE are sharing the same height, this means that E K C E = 1 4 \dfrac {EK}{CE} = \dfrac 14 E K = C K 5 \implies EK = \dfrac {CK}5 . Again A K E \triangle AKE and A C K \triangle ACK are sharing the same height, [ A K E ] [ A C K ] = 1 5 \implies \dfrac {[AKE]}{[ACK]} = \dfrac 15 . But [ A C K ] [ A B C D ] = 1 2 \dfrac {[ACK]}{[ABCD]} = \dfrac 12 . Therefore [ A K E ] [ A B C D ] = [ A K E ] [ A C K ] × [ A C K ] [ A B C D ] = 1 5 × 1 2 = 1 10 = 0.1 \dfrac {[AKE]}{[ABCD]} = \dfrac {[AKE]}{[ACK]} \times \dfrac {[ACK]}{[ABCD]} = \dfrac 15 \times \dfrac 12 = \dfrac 1{10} = \boxed{0.1} .

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