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Geometry Difficulty 5.1 AIME, harder Prove it United States

Problem:

In a plane, equilateral triangle ABCA B C, square BCDEB C D E, and regular dodecagon DEFGHIJKLMNOD E F G H I J K L M N O each have side length 11 and do not overlap. Find the area of the circumcircle of AFN\triangle A F N.

Solution

Solution:

Note that ACD=ACB+BCD=60+90=150\angle A C D = \angle A C B + \angle B C D = 60^{\circ} + 90^{\circ} = 150^{\circ}. In a dodecagon, each interior angle is 18012212=150180^{\circ} \cdot \frac{12-2}{12} = 150^{\circ}, meaning that FED=DON=150\angle F E D = \angle D O N = 150^{\circ}. Since EF=FD=1E F = F D = 1 and DO=ON=1D O = O N = 1 (just like how AC=CD=1A C = C D = 1), then we have that ACDDONFED\triangle A C D \cong \triangle D O N \cong \triangle F E D, and because the triangles are isosceles, then AD=DF=FNA D = D F = F N, so DD is the circumcenter of AFN\triangle A F N.

Now, applying the Law of Cosines gets that AD2=2+3A D^{2} = 2 + \sqrt{3}, so AD2π=(2+3)πA D^{2} \pi = (2 + \sqrt{3}) \pi.

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