find AB in trapezoid

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Trapezoid A B C D ABCD has A B C D AB||CD and C D = 97 CD=97 . Diagonals A C AC and B D BD intersect at E E . A line F G FG is drawn parallel to C D CD such that A F = C F AF=CF and B G = D G BG=DG . Find the length of A B AB .


The answer is 91.

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3 solutions

Aly Ahmed
May 14, 2020

Chew-Seong Cheong
May 13, 2020

We note that E D C \triangle EDC , E G F \triangle EGF , and E A B \triangle EAB are similar. Then

A B G F = A E E F = A F E F E F = A F E F 1 Note that A F = C F = C F E F 1 = E C E F E F 1 = E C E F 2 and that E C E F = C D F G = C D F G 2 A B = F G ( C D F G 2 ) = 3 ( 97 3 2 ) = 91 \begin{aligned} \frac {AB}{GF} & = \frac {AE}{EF} = \frac {AF-EF}{EF} = \frac \blue{AF}{EF} -1 & \small \blue{\text{Note that }AF=CF} \\ & = \frac \blue{CF}{EF} - 1 = \frac {EC-EF}{EF} -1 = \blue{\frac {EC}{EF}} - 2 & \small \blue{\text{and that }\frac {EC}{EF} = \frac {CD}{FG}} \\ & = \blue{\frac {CD}{FG}} - 2 \\ \implies AB & = FG \left(\frac {CD}{FG} - 2\right) = 3 \left(\frac {97}3 - 2\right) = \boxed{91} \end{aligned}

It is well known formula for trapezoid. Distance between the mid-point of diagonals of trapezoid is half the difference of parallel sides.

C D A B 2 \large\frac{CD - AB}{2} = G F = GF

Putting G F = 3 GF = 3 and C D = 97 CD = 97 we get A B = 91 AB = 91

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