CEMC Galois, 2010

Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it Canada

Quadrilateral $QABO$ is constructed as shown, with $O(0,0)$ , $A(2,12)$ , $Q(0,12)$ , and $B(12,0)$ . Determine the area of $QABO$ .

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