Let be the midpoint of side of triangle and the midpoint of median . Line intersects side at . Prove that the area of quadrilateral is the area of triangle .
Solutions — 2
Solution 1
Let be the midpoint of and the intersection point of with .

Because and are midpoints of and , respectively, segment is parallel to side and we have
Because and are midpoints of and , respectively, the point is the centroid of triangle . Therefore
We deduce that the ratio of the areas of the triangles
Therefore
since and are midpoints of and , 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
be the ratios of the areas.
Because is the midpoint of , we have
Because is the midpoint of , we have
We deduce that
and therefore
This proves that
\frac{[C F E D]}{[A B C]}=x+y=\frac{5}{12} .
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