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Quadrilateral ABCDABCD is a parallelogram, and EE is the midpoint of the side AD‾\overline{AD}. Let FF be the intersection of lines EBEB and ACAC. What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral CDEFCDEF to the area of △CFB\triangle CFB?

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Solution

Triangles △AFE\triangle AFE and △CFB\triangle CFB are similar by Angle-Angle. The ratio of corresponding sides is 1:21:2, so the ratio of their areas is 1:41:4. Furthermore, consider △AFE\triangle AFE and △AFB\triangle AFB. Because FE:FB=1:2FE:FB = 1:2 and the heights of the two triangles corresponding to bases FE‾\overline{FE} and FB‾\overline{FB} are the same, their areas are in a 1:21:2 ratio. Finally, observe that the area of △ABE\triangle ABE is 14\frac{1}{4} the area of parallelogram ABCDABCD. Therefore, using the area of △AFE\triangle AFE as unit, the area of △CFB\triangle CFB is 44, the area of △AFB\triangle AFB is 22, the area of quadrilateral ABCDABCD is 4⋅(1+2)=124 \cdot (1+2) = 12, and the area of quadrilateral CDEFCDEF is 12−(1+4+2)=512 - (1+4+2) = 5. The requested ratio of the areas of quadrilateral CDEFCDEF and △CFB\triangle CFB is 5:45:4.

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