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Geometry Difficulty 5.1 AIME, harder Prove it Saudi Arabia

Let DD be the midpoint of side BCB C of triangle ABCA B C and EE the midpoint of median ADA D. Line BEB E intersects side CAC A at FF. Prove that the area of quadrilateral CDEFC D E F is 512\frac{5}{12} the area of triangle ABCA B C.

Solutions — 2

Solution 1

Let KK be the midpoint of ABA B and LL the intersection point of DKD K with BEB E.

Figure 1

Because DD and KK are midpoints of BCB C and BAB A, respectively, segment DKD K is parallel to side ABA B and we have
EFLE=EADE=1. \frac{E F}{L E}=\frac{E A}{D E}=1 .
Because EE and KK are midpoints of ADA D and ABA B, respectively, the point LL is the centroid of triangle ABDA B D. Therefore
LEBE=13. \frac{L E}{B E}=\frac{1}{3} .
We deduce that the ratio of the areas of the triangles
[AEF][ABE]=EFBE=13. \frac{[A E F]}{[A B E]}=\frac{E F}{B E}=\frac{1}{3} .
Therefore
[AEF][ABC]=[AEF][ABE][ABE][ABD][ABD][ABC]=112, \frac{[A E F]}{[A B C]}=\frac{[A E F]}{[A B E]} \cdot \frac{[A B E]}{[A B D]} \cdot \frac{[A B D]}{[A B C]}=\frac{1}{12},
since DD and EE are midpoints of BCB C and ADA D, respectively. We deduce that

\frac{[C F E D]}{[A B C]}=\frac{[A D C]-[A E F]}{[A B C]}=\frac{1}{2}-\frac{1}{12}=\frac{5}{12} .

Solution 2

Let
x=[CFD][ABC] and y=[DFE][ABC] x=\frac{[C F D]}{[A B C]} \quad \text{ and } \quad y=\frac{[D F E]}{[A B C]}
be the ratios of the areas.
Because EE is the midpoint of ADA D, we have
[ABE]=[BDE]=12[ABD] and [AEF]=[DFE]. [A B E]=[B D E]=\frac{1}{2}[A B D] \quad \text{ and } \quad[A E F]=[D F E] .
Because DD is the midpoint of BCB C, we have
[ABD]=[ADC]=12[ABC] and [FBD]=[FDC]. [A B D]=[A D C]=\frac{1}{2}[A B C] \quad \text{ and } \quad[F B D]=[F D C] .
Figure 2

We deduce that
x+2y=12 and x=y+14, x+2 y=\frac{1}{2} \quad \text{ and } \quad x=y+\frac{1}{4},
and therefore
x=13 and y=112. x=\frac{1}{3} \quad \text{ and } \quad y=\frac{1}{12} .
This proves that

\frac{[C F E D]}{[A B C]}=x+y=\frac{5}{12} .

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