, bisects , , the area of triangle is 24, what's the length of ? And is a rectangle.
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2 1 × A B × B F = 2 4
2 1 × 8 × B F = 2 4
4 B F = 2 4
B F = 6
Considering ∠ A B F = 9 0 degrees, A B = 8 and B F = 6 tells us that A F = 1 0 employing Pythagoras' Theorem and A D = A F = 1 0 . Moreover, B C = A D = 1 0 by virtue of the fact that A B C D is a parallelogram. Then C F = B C − B F = 1 0 − 6 = 4 .
If C E = x , then D E = C D − C E = 8 − x . Considering that A D = A F and A E bisects D F , we eventually see that A D E and A E F are congruent. Then E F = D E = 8 − x . Now,
C F 2 + C E 2 = E F 2
4 2 + x 2 = ( 8 − x ) 2
1 6 + x 2 = 6 4 − 1 6 x + x 2
1 6 x = 4 8
x = 1 6 4 8 = 3