Aquarius Star

Geometry Level 2

A regular hexagon is inscribed in a circle, and 6 lines are drawn to join the vertices, resulting in the Aquarius Star, as shown above.

If the blue area is 120, what is the area of the yellow region?


The answer is 80.

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4 solutions

Michael Mendrin
Dec 19, 2016

Count the triangles. There are 12 blue triangles, and 8 yellow triangles. Therefore, if blue area = 120, the yellow area = 80.

Nice pictorial image. I see that @Chung Kevin was justifying why these triangles are equal by chasing down side lengths.

Calvin Lin Staff - 4 years, 5 months ago

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Yeah, it's basically the same proof, but Chung has explained all the steps.

Michael Mendrin - 4 years, 5 months ago

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The lines that Michael drew in help make it clear why the ratio is 6:4. I like this

Chung Kevin - 4 years, 5 months ago

@Michael Mendrin Beautiful and simplest pattern to think about!

Michael Huang - 4 years, 5 months ago

According to the image above, considering triangle A C E ACE , the center O O is the centroid of the triangle, making the triangles A O E AOE , E O C EOC , C O A COA congruent.

And since the inscribed hexagon has each side length equal to the radius, they are 3 3 rhombhi combining with common vertex O O . Thus, the red lines crossing A E AE & A C AC are the bisectors for the triangles' bases.

Thereby, each blue kite has the same area as triangle A O E AOE , equal to 1 3 \dfrac{1}{3} of triangle A C E ACE .

With similarity, each blue kite has an equal area to triangle F O E FOE or B O C BOC .

And similarly, the red and green lines also intersect each other at the centroids of those 2 2 triangles.

Thus, the yellow area is 2 3 \dfrac{2}{3} of those triangles, which equals to the blue area.

Finally, the yellow area = 2 3 × 120 = 80 \dfrac{2}{3}\times 120 = 80 .

And i use sine rules XD

Jason Chrysoprase - 4 years, 6 months ago

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Well, whatever applies is okay. 😉

Worranat Pakornrat - 4 years, 6 months ago

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But i got 110 110 , i think i miscalulated

Jason Chrysoprase - 4 years, 6 months ago

I need solution for this

Jason Chrysoprase - 4 years, 6 months ago

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@Jason Chrysoprase Honestly, I came up with the question by accident: I was working on prime partition. So I didn't think of the solution. Sorry.

Worranat Pakornrat - 4 years, 6 months ago

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@Worranat Pakornrat okay, i'll just wait, just wait :v

Jason Chrysoprase - 4 years, 6 months ago

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@Jason Chrysoprase I'm open to your solution though. 😉

Worranat Pakornrat - 4 years, 6 months ago

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@Worranat Pakornrat okay, i'm just bad at cubic, need more improvement

Jason Chrysoprase - 4 years, 6 months ago
Chung Kevin
Dec 19, 2016

  1. E I = I O EI = IO since F D FD is perpendicular to B E BE , thus F I FI is the altitude of equilateral triangle O F E OFE .
  2. [ G H O ] = [ H I O ] [ GHO] = [HIO] by symmetry and = [ E I O ] = [EIO] since E I = I O EI = IO and = [ F G H ] = [FGH] by symmetry
  3. Thus, one yellow quadrilateral is equal in area to 4 small triangles [ G H O ] [GHO] .
  4. A G = G E AG = GE since C F CF is perpendicular to A E AE thus C F CF is the altitude of equilateral triangle A C E ACE .
  5. [ A G O ] = [ E G O ] [AGO] = [EGO ] since A G = G E AG = GE , which is equal in area to 3 small triangles.
  6. Hence, the blue quadrilateral is equal in area to 6 small triangles.
  7. Thus, yellow : blue = 4 : 6 = 4 : 6 . So the yellow are is 120 × 4 6 = 80 120 \times \frac{4}{6} = 80 .
Robert DeLisle
Jan 2, 2018

The hard way, as usual!

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