Parallelogram and a Triangle...

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If D D and H H are the midpoints of lines A C AC and A B AB respectively and E E , F F , and G G divide line B C BC into four equal lengths. what is the percentage of the shaded area to the area of the right angle triangle?


The answer is 50.

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2 solutions

We note that the four blue right triangles and the green triangle are similar to A B C \triangle ABC . If the hypotenuse B C = 1 BC=1 , then the hypotenuse of a blue triangle is 1 4 \frac 14 and the hypotenuse of the green triangle is 1 2 \frac 12 . Since the area of similar shape figure is directly proportional to the square of the linear dimension. If the area of A B C \triangle ABC is A A B C = a A_{ABC}=a , then the area of a blue triangle is A blue ( 1 4 ) 2 a = 1 16 a A_\blue{\text{blue}}\left(\frac 14\right)^2a = \frac 1{16}a and the area of the green triangle is A green ( 1 2 ) 2 a = 1 4 a A_\green{\text{green}} \left(\frac 12\right)^2a = \frac 14a . Therefore the area of the orange region is:

A orange = A A B C 4 A blue A green = a 4 16 a 1 4 a = 1 2 a A orange A A B C = 1 2 a a = 0.5 = 50 % \begin{aligned} A_\orange{\text{orange}} & = A_{ABC} - 4 A_\blue{\text{blue}} - A_\green{\text{green}} \\ & = a - \frac 4{16}a - \frac 14a \\ & = \frac 12 a \\ \implies \frac {A_\orange{\text{orange}}}{A_{ABC}} & = \frac {\frac 12 a}a = 0.5 = \boxed{50} \% \end{aligned}

Martin Taylor
Sep 2, 2020

Since the shapes here are similar the total area can be written as

2A + 2B + 2C = 100%

then to find the shaded area, you can divide by 2 to get

A + B + C = 50%

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