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Geometry Difficulty 6.7 National olympiad Prove it Belarus

Two lines pass through the point F(1;1)F(1; 1) on the Cartesian plane. These lines are perpendicular to each other, one of them intersects the right branch of the hyperbola y=12xy = \frac{1}{2x} at the points AA and CC (CC has bigger xx-coordinate than AA), and the other line intersects the left branch of this hyperbola at the point BB and the right branch — at the point DD. The product of the projections of the segments ACAC and BDBD to the xx-axis equals mm.
Find the area of the (non-convex) quadrilateral ABCDABCD. (Igor Voronovich)

Solution

Denote the abscissas of the points AA, BB, CC and DD by aa, bb, cc and dd respectively. The perpendicularity of the lines ABAB and CDCD is equivalent to acbd=1/4acbd = -1/4 and the fact that the point FF belongs to the lines ACAC and BDBD is equivalent to the equalities a+c=2ac+1a+c = 2ac+1 and b+d=2bd+1b+d = 2bd+1. Denote ac=pac = p and bd=qbd = q, then the numbers aa and cc are the roots of the quadratic equation x2(2p+1)x+p=0x^2 - (2p+1)x + p = 0 and the numbers bb and dd are the roots of the quadratic equation x2(2q+1)x+q=0x^2 - (2q+1)x + q = 0. Hence ca=4p2+1c - a = \sqrt{4p^2 + 1} and db=4q2+1d - b = \sqrt{4q^2 + 1}. Note that
12a12c=ca2ac=4p2+12p=2q14q2+1=4q2+1=db. \frac{1}{2a} - \frac{1}{2c} = \frac{c-a}{2ac} = \frac{\sqrt{4p^2+1}}{2p} = -2q \cdot \sqrt{\frac{1}{4q^2} + 1} = \sqrt{4q^2+1} = d-b.
Similarly, 12d12b=ca\frac{1}{2d} - \frac{1}{2b} = c-a. Thus the projections of the segment ACAC on the abscissa and ordinate axes are equal, respectively, to the projections of the segment BDBD on the ordinate and abscissa axes, hence AC=BDAC = BD. Since the diagonals ACAC and BDBD of the quadrilateral ABCDABCD are perpendicular, its area SS is equal to half the product of the diagonals. Therefore
S=12ACBD=12AC2=12((ca)2+(bd)2)=12(4p2+4q2+2). S = \frac{1}{2} \cdot AC \cdot BD = \frac{1}{2} AC^2 = \frac{1}{2}((c-a)^2 + (b-d)^2) = \frac{1}{2}(4p^2 + 4q^2 + 2).

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