Trapezium 2

Geometry Level pending

A B C D ABCD is a trapezium, A D B C AD||BC and C B D = 45 º ∠CBD=45º . It is known that B D < A D + B C BD<AD+BC , A D + D B + B C = 35 AD+DB+BC=35 and the area of A B C D ABCD is 75 2 75\sqrt{2} . If the height of the trapezium can be expressed as l m n \frac lm\sqrt n , where l l and m m are coprime positive integers and n n is square-free, find l + m + n l+m+n .


The answer is 19.

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Sathvik Acharya
Mar 4, 2021

Construction: Drop a perpendicular from B B to line A D AD and let F F be the foot of the perpendicular. So, B F = h BF=h is the height of the trapezium. Since A D E C B E \triangle ADE\sim \triangle CBE , we have, C B A D = B E D E = k \dfrac{CB}{AD}=\dfrac{BE}{DE}=k , for some constant k k . Let A D = x C B = k x AD= x\implies CB=kx\; and D E = y B E = k y \;DE=y\implies BE=ky .

We are given that, A D + D B + B C = 35 x ( k + 1 ) + y ( k + 1 ) = 35 ( 1 ) 1 2 ( A D + C B ) B F = 75 2 x ( k + 1 ) h = 150 2 ( 2 ) A D + B C > B D x ( k + 1 ) > y ( k + 1 ) ( 3 ) \begin{aligned} AD+DB+BC&=35\\ x(k+1)+y(k+1)&=35 &&\;\;\;\;\;\;(1) \\ \\ \frac{1}{2}\cdot (AD+CB)\cdot BF&=75\sqrt{2} \\ x(k+1)\cdot h&=150\sqrt{2} &&\;\;\;\;\;\;(2) \\ \\ AD+BC&>BD \\ x(k+1)&>y(k+1) &&\;\;\;\;\;\; (3) \end{aligned} Note that B F D \triangle BFD is an isosceles right-triangle, so D B 2 = B F 2 + F D 2 y ( k + 1 ) = h 2 + h 2 y ( k + 1 ) = h 2 \begin{aligned} DB^2&=BF^2+FD^2 \\ y(k+1)&=\sqrt{h^2+h^2} \\ y(k+1)&=h\sqrt{2} \end{aligned} Substituting this in ( 1 ) (1) and ( 2 ) (2) , defining z = x ( k + 1 ) z=x(k+1) , we have the system of equations, { z + h 2 = 35 z h = 150 \begin{cases} z+h\sqrt{2}=35 \\ zh=150 \end{cases} Solving the above equations results in a quadratic with solutions ( h , z ) = ( 15 2 2 , 20 ) or ( h , z ) = ( 10 2 , 15 ) (h,z)=\left(\dfrac{15 \sqrt{2}}{2}, 20\right)\; \text{or} \;(h,z)=\left(10\sqrt{2}, 15\right) If z = x ( k + 1 ) = 15 z=x(k+1)=15 , from equation ( 1 ) (1) , y ( k + 1 ) = 20 \;y(k+1)=20 which contradicts equation ( 3 ) (3) . Thus, the second solution is invalid.

Therefore, the height of the trapezium is h = 15 2 2 l + m + n = 15 + 2 + 2 = 19 h=\dfrac{15}{2}\sqrt{2} \implies l+m+n=15+2+2=\boxed{19}

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...