Segments in square

Geometry Level 3

In the square in the diagram, the diagonal intersects the line segment drawn between the upper left vertex and the midpoint of the base.

If the area of the blue triangle is 20, then what is the area of the orange quadrilateral?


The answer is 50.

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Sswag SSwagf
Jul 5, 2017

Simple and elegant solution here:

Consider M M the midpoint of the square side and P P de intersection point S , R S, R the vertex. R P M \triangle RPM has the same height as R P S \triangle RPS and a half from it's base , you can prove that they have same height if you notice that 45 45 ◦ is the bissector from the square vertex and both are angles from the triangles too \therefore

R P M \triangle RPM = R P S 2 \frac{\triangle RPS}{2} you can notice too that R P M \triangle RPM + R P S \triangle RPS its 1 4 \frac{1}{4} from the square since they touch the midpoint of the square \therefore square area is 120 120 and orange area is a half from the square - R P M \triangle RPM wich is 50 .

Let the square be A B C D ABCD with sides 2 a 2a . The midpoint of C D CD be M M . The line A M AM cuts B D BD at N N and the altitude from N N meets C D CD at P P and D P = b DP=b .

We note that A M D \triangle AMD is similar to N M P \triangle NMP . Therefore,

P M N P = D M A D Since B D C = 4 5 , N P = D P P M D P = a 2 a a b b = 1 2 2 a 2 b = b b = 2 3 a \begin{aligned} \frac {PM}{\color{#3D99F6}NP} & = \frac {DM}{AD} & \small \color{#3D99F6} \text{Since }\angle BDC = 45^\circ, \implies NP=DP \\ \frac {PM}{\color{#3D99F6}DP} & = \frac a{2a} \\ \frac {a-b}b & = \frac 12 \\ 2a-2b & = b \\ \implies b & = \frac 23 a \end{aligned}

Then, the area of D M N \triangle DMN , [ D M N ] = a x 2 = 1 3 a 2 [DMN] = \dfrac {ax}2 = \dfrac 13 a^2 . We know that

[ A D N ] + [ D M N ] = 1 2 × a × 2 a 20 + 1 3 a 2 = a 2 2 3 a 2 = 20 a 2 = 30 \begin{aligned} [ADN]+[DMN] & = \frac 12 \times a \times 2a \\ 20+\frac 13a^2 & = a^2 \\ \frac 23 a^2 & = 20 \\ \implies a^2 & = 30\end{aligned}

We also know that

[ B C M N ] + [ D M N ] = 1 2 × 2 a × 2 a [ B C M N ] + 1 3 a 2 = 2 a 2 [ B C M N ] = 5 3 a 2 = 50 \begin{aligned} [BCMN]+[DMN] & = \frac 12 \times 2a \times 2a \\ [BCMN]+\frac 13a^2 & = 2a^2 \\ \implies [BCMN] & = \frac 53 a^2 = \boxed{50} \end{aligned}

If F F is the midpoint of A D AD , then [ A F G ] = [ F G D ] = 10 [AFG]=[FGD]=10 . G G is on the A C AC diagonal, so G E = G F GE=GF . From that the A E G , A F G \triangle AEG, \triangle AFG are coincident, because they have to same sides. So [ A E G ] = 10 [AEG]=10 . Then

[ A E D ] = A E A D 2 = [ A E G ] + [ A F G ] + [ F G D ] = 3 10 = 30 [AED]=\dfrac{AE*AD}{2}=[AEG]+[AFG]+[FGD]=3*10=30 [ A B C D ] = 4 [ A E D ] = 120 \Rightarrow [ABCD]=4[AED]=120 [ B C G E ] = [ A B C ] 10 = [ A B C D ] 2 10 = 120 2 10 = 60 10 = 50 [BCGE]=[ABC]-10=\dfrac{[ABCD]}{2}-10=\dfrac{120}{2}-10=60-10=\boxed{50}

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