Logical geometry

Geometry Level 4

A polygon is such that it is a perfect cross \text{is a perfect cross} with exactly 8 8 grid points lying outside it.

Find the area of the polygon (in units) constructed on the given grid of equal distanced points such that all its vertices are on the grid points.


The answer is 10.

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1 solution

Tanishq Varshney
Nov 2, 2015

By Pick's Theorem

Area of the polygon, A = I + B / 2 1 A=I+B/2-1

where I I are number of grid points inside the polygon and B B are number of grid points on its boundary.

A = 10 A=\boxed{10}

May be other solutions exist!

Abdelhamid Saadi - 4 years, 11 months ago

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