Length of a line

Geometry Level 3

The figure above shows a parallelogram A B C D . ABCD. C B \overline {CB} extended meets A E \overline{AE} at a 9 0 90^\circ angle and C D \overline{CD} extended meets A F \overline{AF} at a 9 0 90^\circ angle. Given that E B = 3 , B C = 5 \overline{EB}=3,\overline{BC}=5 and A B = 4 \overline{AB}=4 , find the length of D F \overline{DF} .


The answer is 3.75.

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2 solutions

E B A = 180 A B C \angle EBA=180-\angle ABC and A D F = 180 A D C \angle ADF=180-\angle ADC

However, A B C = A D C \angle ABC=\angle ADC . Therefore, E B A = A D F \angle EBA=\angle ADF .

It follows that, E B A A D F \triangle EBA \sim \triangle ADF ( A . A . ) (A.A.) . So we have

D F A D = E B A B \dfrac{DF}{AD}=\dfrac{EB}{AB} \color{#D61F06}\large \implies D F 5 = 3 4 \dfrac{DF}{5}=\dfrac{3}{4} \color{#D61F06}\large \implies D F = 3 ( 5 ) 4 = DF=\dfrac{3(5)}{4}= 3.75 \color{#3D99F6}\boxed{\large 3.75}

For calculating the area if ABCD we have 2 options:

A D A E AD \cdot AE and A B A F AB \cdot AF .

Obviously these give the same result. Using Pythagoras we can find A E = 7 AE = \sqrt7 . So we have:

5 7 = 4 A F 5 \cdot \sqrt7= 4 \cdot AF .

So A F = 5 4 7 AF = \frac{5}{4}\sqrt7 . Now using Pythagoras in triangle ADF we can calculate D F = 3.75 DF= 3.75 .

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