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?
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Nice pictorial image. I see that @Chung Kevin was justifying why these triangles are equal by chasing down side lengths.
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Yeah, it's basically the same proof, but Chung has explained all the steps.
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The lines that Michael drew in help make it clear why the ratio is 6:4. I like this
@Michael Mendrin Beautiful and simplest pattern to think about!
According to the image above, considering triangle A C E , the center O is the centroid of the triangle, making the triangles A O E , E O C , C O A congruent.
And since the inscribed hexagon has each side length equal to the radius, they are 3 rhombhi combining with common vertex O . Thus, the red lines crossing A E & A C are the bisectors for the triangles' bases.
Thereby, each blue kite has the same area as triangle A O E , equal to 3 1 of triangle A C E .
With similarity, each blue kite has an equal area to triangle F O E or B O C .
And similarly, the red and green lines also intersect each other at the centroids of those 2 triangles.
Thus, the yellow area is 3 2 of those triangles, which equals to the blue area.
Finally, the yellow area = 3 2 × 1 2 0 = 8 0 .
And i use sine rules XD
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Well, whatever applies is okay. 😉
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But i got 1 1 0 , i think i miscalulated
I need solution for this
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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.
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@Worranat Pakornrat – okay, i'll just wait, just wait :v
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@Jason Chrysoprase – I'm open to your solution though. 😉
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@Worranat Pakornrat – okay, i'm just bad at cubic, need more improvement
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Count the triangles. There are 12 blue triangles, and 8 yellow triangles. Therefore, if blue area = 120, the yellow area = 80.