Too many right angles

Geometry Level 3

Give that A B C D ABCD is a square, A M = 13 AM=13 , M N = 14 MN=14 , N C = 21 NC=21 . Find the length of A B AB .


The answer is 26.000.

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Construct a rectangle C N M P CNMP . We have C N = M P = 21 CN=MP=21 , C P = M N = 14 CP=MN=14 .

So, A C = C P 2 + A P 2 = 1 4 2 + 3 4 2 = 26 2 AC=\sqrt{CP^2+AP^2}=\sqrt{14^2+34^2}=26\sqrt{2} , implies that A B = 26 AB=26 .

Let the length of the side AB be a and the angle MAD be α. Then a=21cosα+13cosα-14sinα and a=21sinα+14cosα+13sinα. From these, we get tanα= 5 12 \dfrac{5}{12} , sinα= 5 13 \dfrac{5}{13} and cosα= 12 13 \dfrac{12}{13} . Therefore a= 338 13 \dfrac{338}{13} =26

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