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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 10,1810,18 and area 140140. 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 66.

  • 2. A rhombus has diagonals 10,2410,24. Find perimeter.

  • 3. A radius-1212 sector has angle 150∘150^\circ. Find area.

  • 4. Find the area of a 1313-1414-1515 triangle.

  • 5. A square is inscribed in a radius-55 circle. Find its area.

  • 6. A semicircle has area 18π18\pi. Find its perimeter.

  • 7. Find the area between concentric circles of radii 5,135,13.

  • 8. A parallelogram has sides 8,118,11 and angle 30∘30^\circ. Find area.

  • 9. A rectangle's diagonal makes two triangles of area 4545 each. One side is 99. Find other side.

Area Techniques Practice Problems — Hard