Little clue.

Geometry Level 3

In the figure, A B C D ABCD is a square; the area of the orange rectangle is 48; A E A D = 16 25 \dfrac{AE}{AD} = \dfrac{16}{25} , and A F A B = 9 25 \dfrac{AF}{AB} = \dfrac{9}{25} . What is the area of the part colored green?


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The answer is 76.

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Chew-Seong Cheong
Aug 25, 2017

Let the side length of square A B C D ABCD be a a . Then A E = 16 25 a AE = \dfrac {16}{25}a and A F = 9 25 a AF = \dfrac 9{25}a . Then A E + A F = a AE+AF = a .

Let F G = E H = b FG = EH = b . We note that A F G \triangle AFG and A E H \triangle AEH are similar. Therefore,

F G A F = A E E H b A F = A E b b 2 = A E A F = 16 25 a 9 25 a b = 12 25 a \begin{aligned} \frac {FG}{AF} & = \frac {AE}{EH} \\ \frac {b}{AF} & = \frac {AE}{b} \\ \implies b^2 & = AE \cdot AF \\ & = \frac {16}{25} a \cdot \frac 9{25} a \\ \implies b & = \frac {12}{25} a \end{aligned}

Now, we note that the area of the orange rectangle is a b = 12 25 a 2 = 48 ab = \dfrac {12}{25} a^2 = 48 . Then the area of square A B C D ABCD , a 2 = 48 × 25 12 = 100 a^2 = 48 \times \dfrac {25}{12} = 100 . Then the area of the green part:

[ G B C D H ] = [ A B C D ] [ A G H ] Note that [ A G H ] = 1 2 [ E F G H ] = 100 24 = 76 \begin{aligned} \color{#20A900} [GBCDH] & = [ABCD] - \color{#EC7300} [AGH] & \small \color{#EC7300} \text{Note that } [AGH] = \frac 12 [EFGH] \\ & = 100 - \color{#EC7300} 24 \\ & = \boxed{76} \end{aligned}

I didn't think of that. Wow, impressive!

Thành Đạt Lê - 3 years, 9 months ago

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Thanks. Glad that you like it. Good problem. Note that it should be "series".

Chew-Seong Cheong - 3 years, 9 months ago

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I think of the problem myself, I took a long time to actually make it hard enough. Thanks for the compliment though.

Thành Đạt Lê - 3 years, 9 months ago

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