Quadrilaterals

Square $EFGH$ has one vertex on each side of square $ABCD$. Point $E$ is on $AB$ with $AE = 7 \cdot EB$. What is the ratio of the area of $EFGH$ to the area of $ABCD$?

Four congruent rectangles are placed as shown. The area of the outer square is $4$ times that of the inner square. What is the ratio of the length of the longer side of each rectangle to the length of its shorter side?

The five small shaded squares inside this unit square are congruent and have disjoint interiors. The midpoint of each side of the middle square coincides with one of the vertices of the other four small squares as shown. The common side length is $\frac{a - \sqrt{2}}{b}$, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers. What is $a + b$?

Let $ABCD$ be a square. Let $E, F, G$ and $H$ be the centers, respectively, of equilateral triangles with bases $\overline{AB}, \overline{BC}, \overline{CD},$ and $\overline{DA}$, each exterior to the square. What is the ratio of the area of square $EFGH$ to the area of square $ABCD$?

In square $ABCD$, points $E$ and $H$ lie on $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{DA}$, respectively, so that $AE = AH$. Points $F$ and $G$ lie on $\overline{BC}$ and $\overline{CD}$, respectively, and points $I$ and $J$ lie on $\overline{EH}$ so that $\overline{FI} \perp \overline{EH}$ and $\overline{GJ} \perp \overline{EH}$. See the figure below. Triangle $AEH$, quadrilateral $BFIE$, quadrilateral $DHJG$, and pentagon $FCGJI$ each has area $1$. What is $FI^2$?

A closed box with a square base is to be wrapped with a square sheet of wrapping paper. The box is centered on the wrapping paper with the vertices of the base lying on the midlines of the square sheet of paper, as shown in the figure. The four corners of the wrapping paper are to be folded up over the sides and brought together to meet at the center of the top of the box, point $A$ (seen from above, as in the figure, $A$ is the center of the sheet). The box has base length $w$ and height $h$. What is the area of the sheet of wrapping paper?

Rectangle $ABCD$ has $AB = 3$ and $BC = 4$. Point $E$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $B$ to diagonal $\overline{AC}$. What is the area of $\triangle AED$?

A rectangular floor measures $a$ by $b$ feet, where $a$ and $b$ are positive integers and $b > a$. An artist paints a rectangle on the floor with the sides of the rectangle parallel to the floor. The unpainted part of the floor forms a border of width $1$ foot around the painted rectangle and occupies half the area of the whole floor. How many possibilities are there for the ordered pair $(a, b)$?

In rectangle $ABCD$, $DC = 2 \cdot CB$ and points $E$ and $F$ lie on $\overline{AB}$ so that $\overline{ED}$ and $\overline{FD}$ trisect $\angle ADC$ as shown. What is the ratio of the area of $\triangle DEF$ to the area of rectangle $ABCD$?

In rectangle $ABCD$, $AB = 6$, $AD = 30$, and $G$ is the midpoint of $\overline{AD}$. Segment $AB$ is extended $2$ units beyond $B$ to point $E$, and $F$ is the intersection of $\overline{ED}$ and $\overline{BC}$. What is the area of quadrilateral $BFDG$?

In the figure, $ABCD$ is a square of side length $1$. The rectangles $JKHG$ and $EBCF$ are congruent. What is $BE$?

In rectangle $PQRS$, $PQ = 8$ and $QR = 6$. Points $A$ and $B$ lie on $\overline{PQ}$, points $C$ and $D$ lie on $\overline{QR}$, points $E$ and $F$ lie on $\overline{RS}$, and points $G$ and $H$ lie on $\overline{SP}$ so that $AP = BQ < 4$ and the convex octagon $ABCDEFGH$ is equilateral. The length of a side of this octagon can be expressed in the form $k + m\sqrt{n}$, where $k$, $m$, and $n$ are integers and $n$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $k + m + n$?

Convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ has $AB = 9$ and $CD = 12$. Diagonals $AC$ and $BD$ intersect at $E$, $AC = 14$, and $\triangle AED$ and $\triangle BEC$ have equal areas. What is $AE$?

Let $ABCD$ be a parallelogram with area $15$. Points $P$ and $Q$ are the projections of $A$ and $C$, respectively, onto the line $BD$; and points $R$ and $S$ are the projections of $B$ and $D$, respectively, onto the line $AC$. See the figure, which also shows the relative locations of these points.

Suppose $PQ = 6$ and $RS = 8$, and let $d$ denote the length of $\overline{BD}$, the longer diagonal of $ABCD$. Then $d^2$ can be written in the form $m + n\sqrt{p}$, where $m$, $n$, and $p$ are positive integers and $p$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $m + n + p$?

In the diagram below, $ABCD$ is a rectangle with side lengths $AB = 3$ and $BC = 11$, and $AECF$ is a rectangle with side lengths $AF = 7$ and $FC = 9$, as shown. The area of the shaded region common to the interiors of both rectangles is $\frac{m}{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$.

Trapezoid $ABCD$ has bases $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ and diagonals intersecting at $K$. Suppose that $AB = 9$, $DC = 12$, and the area of $\triangle AKD$ is $24$. What is the area of trapezoid $ABCD$?

In trapezoid $ABCD$ we have $\overline{AB}$ parallel to $\overline{DC}$, $E$ as the midpoint of $\overline{BC}$, and $F$ as the midpoint of $\overline{DA}$. The area of $ABEF$ is twice the area of $FECD$. What is $AB/DC$?

Consider the 12-sided polygon $ABCDEFGHIJKL$, as shown. Each of its sides has length $4$, and each two consecutive sides form a right angle. Suppose that $\overline{AG}$ and $\overline{CH}$ meet at $M$. What is the area of quadrilateral $ABCM$?

What is the maximum area of an isosceles trapezoid that has legs of length $1$ and one base twice as long as the other?

Let $ABCD$ be an isosceles trapezoid having parallel bases $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{CD}$ with $AB > CD$. Line segments from a point inside $ABCD$ to the vertices divide the trapezoid into four triangles whose areas are $2, 3, 4,$ and $5$ starting with the triangle with base $\overline{CD}$ and moving clockwise as shown in the diagram below. What is the ratio $\frac{AB}{CD}$?

Isosceles trapezoid $ABCD$ has parallel sides $\overline{AD}$ and $\overline{BC}$, with $BC < AD$ and $AB = CD$. There is a point $P$ in the plane such that $PA = 1$, $PB = 2$, $PC = 3$, and $PD = 4$. What is $\frac{BC}{AD}$?

Trapezoid $ABCD$ has parallel sides $\overline{AB}$ of length $33$ and $\overline{CD}$ of length $21$. The other two sides are of lengths $10$ and $14$. The angles $A$ and $B$ are acute. What is the length of the shorter diagonal of $ABCD$?

Trapezoid $ABCD$ has $\overline{AB} \parallel \overline{CD}$, $BC = CD = 43$, and $\overline{AD} \perp \overline{BD}$. Let $O$ be the intersection of the diagonals $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BD}$, and let $P$ be the midpoint of $\overline{BD}$. Given that $OP = 11$, the length $AD$ can be written in the form $m\sqrt{n}$, where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers and $n$ is not divisible by the square of any prime. What is $m + n$?

Convex quadrilateral $ABCD$ has $AB = 3$, $BC = 4$, $CD = 13$, $AD = 12$, and $\angle ABC = 90^\circ$, as shown. What is the area of the quadrilateral?

A square piece of paper has side length $1$ and vertices $A, B, C,$ and $D$ in that order. As shown in the figure the paper is folded so that vertex $C$ meets edge $\overline{AD}$ at point $C'$, and edge $\overline{BC}$ intersects edge $\overline{AB}$ at point $E$. Suppose that $C'D = \frac{1}{3}$. What is the perimeter of $\triangle AEC'$?

Rectangle $ABCD$ has $AB = 3$ and $BC = 4$. Point $E$ is the foot of the perpendicular from $B$ to diagonal $\overline{AC}$. What is the area of $\triangle AED$?

The internal angles of quadrilateral $ABCD$ form an arithmetic progression. Triangles $ABD$ and $DCB$ are similar with $\angle DBA = \angle DCB$ and $\angle ADB = \angle CBD$. Moreover, the angles in each of these two triangles also form an arithmetic progression. In degrees, what is the largest possible sum of the two largest angles of $ABCD$?

Let $ABCD$ be a square, and let $E$ and $F$ be points on $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{BC}$, respectively. The line through $E$ parallel to $\overline{BC}$ and the line through $F$ parallel to $\overline{AB}$ divide $ABCD$ into two squares and two nonsquare rectangles. The sum of the areas of the two squares is $\frac{9}{10}$ of the area of square $ABCD$. Find $\frac{AE}{EB} + \frac{EB}{AE}$.

$ABCD$ is a rectangular sheet of paper that has been folded so that corner $B$ is matched with point $B'$ on edge $AD$. The crease is $EF$, where $E$ is on $AB$ and $F$ is on $CD$. The dimensions $AE = 8$, $BE = 17$, and $CF = 3$ are given. The perimeter of rectangle $ABCD$ is $m/n$, where $m$ and $n$ are relatively prime positive integers. Find $m + n$.

In convex quadrilateral $KLMN$ side $\overline{MN}$ is perpendicular to diagonal $\overline{KM}$, side $\overline{KL}$ is perpendicular to diagonal $\overline{LN}$, $MN = 65$, and $KL = 28$. The line through $L$ perpendicular to side $\overline{KN}$ intersects diagonal $\overline{KM}$ at $O$ with $KO = 8$. Find $MO$.