Area Techniques (Hard)
Late AMC 10/12 through early AIME — dense computation.
Area Techniques: core idea
Ratio of areas.
Example problem: hint and answer
A trapezoid has bases and area . Find height.
Hint: Select the formula matching the figure, and include all needed boundary pieces. Answer: 10.
Practice (9 problems — type your answers)
1. Find the area of a regular hexagon of side .
2. A rhombus has diagonals . Find perimeter.
3. A radius- sector has angle . Find area.
4. Find the area of a -- triangle.
5. A square is inscribed in a radius- circle. Find its area.
6. A semicircle has area . Find its perimeter.
7. Find the area between concentric circles of radii .
8. A parallelogram has sides and angle . Find area.
9. A rectangle's diagonal makes two triangles of area each. One side is . Find other side.