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Area and Length of Complex Shapes: all problems

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Problem 37.3.1

AMC 12

This problem also appears in the book as 33.6.1.

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

Problem 37.3.2

AMC 12

This problem also appears in the book as 35.6.

Regular octagon ABCDEFGHABCDEFGH has area nn. Let mm be the area of quadrilateral ACEGACEG. What is mn\dfrac{m}{n}?

Problem 37.3.3

AMC 10

As shown in the figure below, six semicircles lie in the interior of a regular hexagon with side length 22 so that the diameters of the semicircles coincide with the sides of the hexagon. What is the area of the shaded region — inside the hexagon but outside all of the semicircles?

Problem 37.4.1(additional)

AMC 12

A circle of radius 22 is centered at AA. An equilateral triangle with side 44 has a vertex at AA. What is the difference between the area of the region that lies inside the circle but outside the triangle and the area of the region that lies inside the triangle but outside the circle?

Problem 37.4.2(additional)

AIME

A rectangle has sides of length aa and 3636. A hinge is installed at each vertex of the rectangle, and at the midpoint of each side of length 3636. The sides of length aa can be pressed toward each other keeping those two sides parallel so the rectangle becomes a convex hexagon as shown. When the figure is a hexagon with the sides of length aa parallel and separated by a distance of 2424, the hexagon has the same area as the original rectangle. Find a2a^2.

Problem 37.4.3(additional)

AIME

This problem also appears in the book as 33.6.28.

ABCDABCD is a rectangular sheet of paper that has been folded so that corner BB is matched with point B′B' on edge ADAD. The crease is EFEF, where EE is on ABAB and FF is on CDCD. The dimensions AE=8AE = 8, BE=17BE = 17, and CF=3CF = 3 are given. The perimeter of rectangle ABCDABCD is m/nm/n, where mm and nn are relatively prime positive integers. Find m+nm + n.

Fold B onto B′: the crease EF is the perpendicular bisector of BB′

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Crease EF ⊥ BB′

Fold B onto B′: the crease EF is the perpendicular bisector of BB′

Problem 37.4.4(additional)

AMC 10

Sides AB‾\overline{AB} and AC‾\overline{AC} of equilateral triangle ABCABC are tangent to a circle at points BB and CC respectively. What fraction of the area of △ABC\triangle ABC lies outside the circle?

Problem 37.4.5(additional)

AMC 12

On each side of a unit square, an equilateral triangle of side length 11 is constructed. On each new side of each equilateral triangle, another equilateral triangle of side length 11 is constructed. The interiors of the square and the 1212 triangles have no points in common. Let RR be the region formed by the union of the square and all the triangles, and SS be the smallest convex polygon that contains RR. What is the area of the region that is inside SS but outside RR?

Problem 37.4.6(additional)

AMC 12

Vertex EE of equilateral △ABE\triangle ABE is in the interior of unit square ABCDABCD. Let RR be the region consisting of all points inside ABCDABCD and outside △ABE\triangle ABE whose distance from AD‾\overline{AD} is between 13\frac13 and 23\frac23. What is the area of RR?

Problem 37.4.7(additional)

AMC 12

Triangle ABCABC has AC=3AC = 3, BC=4BC = 4, and AB=5AB = 5. Point DD is on AB‾\overline{AB}, and CD‾\overline{CD} bisects the right angle. The inscribed circles of △ADC\triangle ADC and △BCD\triangle BCD have radii rar_a and rbr_b, respectively. What is ra/rbr_a/r_b?

Problem 37.4.8(additional)

AMC 10

A circle with center OO has area 156π156\pi. Triangle ABCABC is equilateral, BC‾\overline{BC} is a chord on the circle, OA=43OA = 4\sqrt{3}, and point OO is outside △ABC\triangle ABC. What is the side length of △ABC\triangle ABC?

Problem 37.4.9(additional)

AMC 10

The figure shown is called a trefoil and is constructed by drawing circular sectors about the sides of the congruent equilateral triangles. What is the area of a trefoil whose horizontal base has length 22?

Problem 37.4.10(additional)

AMC 10

This problem also appears in the book as 35.4.3.

Two circles lie outside regular hexagon ABCDEFABCDEF. The first is tangent to AB‾\overline{AB}, and the second is tangent to DE‾\overline{DE}. Both are tangent to lines BCBC and FAFA. What is the ratio of the area of the second circle to that of the first circle?

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Problem 37.4.11(additional)

AMC 10

A square of side length 11 and a circle of radius 33\dfrac{\sqrt{3}}{3} share the same center. What is the area inside the circle, but outside the square?

Problem 37.4.12(additional)

AMC 10

An equilateral triangle has side length 66. What is the area of the region containing all points that are outside the triangle but not more than 33 units from a point of the triangle?

Problem 37.4.13(additional)

AMC 10

The closed curve in the figure is made up of 99 congruent circular arcs each of length 2π3\dfrac{2\pi}{3}, where each of the centers of the corresponding circles is among the vertices of a regular hexagon of side 22. What is the area enclosed by the curve?

Problem 37.4.14(additional)

AMC 10

A regular hexagon has side length 66. Congruent arcs with radius 33 are drawn with the center at each of the vertices, creating circular sectors as shown. The region inside the hexagon but outside the sectors is shaded as shown. What is the area of the shaded region?

Problem 37.4.15(additional)

AMC 10/12

A semicircle of diameter 11 sits at the top of a semicircle of diameter 22, as shown. The shaded area inside the smaller semicircle and outside the larger semicircle is called a lune. Determine the area of this lune.

Problem 37.4.16(additional)

AMC 10/12

Square ABCDABCD has side length 22. A semicircle with diameter AB‾\overline{AB} is constructed inside the square, and the tangent to the semicircle from CC intersects side AD‾\overline{AD} at EE. What is the length of CE‾\overline{CE}?

Problem 37.4.17(additional)

AMC 10

A circle of radius 11 is internally tangent to two circles of radius 22 at points AA and BB, where AB‾\overline{AB} is a diameter of the smaller circle. What is the area of the region, shaded in the picture, that is outside the smaller circle and inside each of the two larger circles?

Problem 37.4.18(additional)

AMC 10

A circle of radius 22 is centered at OO. Square OABCOABC has side length 11. Sides AB‾\overline{AB} and CB‾\overline{CB} are extended past BB to meet the circle at DD and EE, respectively. What is the area of the shaded region in the figure, which is bounded by BD‾\overline{BD}, BE‾\overline{BE}, and the minor arc connecting DD and EE?

Problem 37.4.19(additional)

AMC 10

A paint brush is swept along both diagonals of a square to produce the symmetric painted area, as shown. Half the area of the square is painted. What is the ratio of the side length of the square to the brush width?

Problem 37.4.20(additional)

AMC 10

This problem also appears in the book as 37.2.

Circles centered at AA and BB each have radius 22, as shown. Point OO is the midpoint of AB‾\overline{AB}, and OA=22OA = 2\sqrt{2}. Segments OC‾\overline{OC} and OD‾\overline{OD} are tangent to the circles centered at AA and BB, respectively, and EF‾\overline{EF} is a common tangent. What is the area of the shaded region ECODFECODF?

Problem 37.4.21(additional)

AMC 10

A unit square is rotated 45∘45^\circ about its center. What is the area of the region swept out by the interior of the square?

Problem 37.4.22(additional)

AMC 10

This problem also appears in the book as 37.4.4.

Sides AB‾\overline{AB} and AC‾\overline{AC} of equilateral triangle ABCABC are tangent to a circle at points BB and CC respectively. What fraction of the area of △ABC\triangle ABC lies outside the circle?

Problem 37.4.23(additional)

AMC 12

Circles ω1\omega_1, ω2\omega_2, and ω3\omega_3 each have radius 44 and are placed in the plane so that each circle is externally tangent to the other two. Points P1P_1, P2P_2, and P3P_3 lie on ω1\omega_1, ω2\omega_2, and ω3\omega_3 respectively such that P1P2=P2P3=P3P1P_1P_2 = P_2P_3 = P_3P_1 and line PiPi+1P_iP_{i+1} is tangent to ωi\omega_i for each i=1,2,3i = 1, 2, 3, where P4=P1P_4 = P_1. See the figure below. The area of △P1P2P3\triangle P_1P_2P_3 can be written in the form a+b\sqrt{a} + \sqrt{b} for positive integers aa and bb. What is a+ba + b?

Problem 37.4.24(additional)

AIMEChallenge

Squares S1S_1 and S2S_2 are inscribed in right triangle ABCABC, as shown in the figures below. Find AC+CBAC + CB if area(S1)=441(S_1) = 441 and area(S2)=440(S_2) = 440.