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Geometry Difficulty 3.4 AMC 10/12 Find the answer

Squares ABCDABCD and EFGHEFGH are congruent, AB=10AB=10, and GG is the center of square ABCDABCD. The area of the region in the plane covered by these squares is

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Solution

The area of the entire region in the plane is the area of the figure. However, we cannot simply add the two areas of the squares. We find the area of ABG\triangle ABG and subtract this from 200200, the total area of the two squares.

Since GG is the center of ABCDABCD, BGBG is half of the diagonal of the square. The diagonal of ABCDABCD is 10210\sqrt{2} so BG=52BG=5\sqrt{2}. Since EFGHEFGH is a square, G=90\angle G=90^\circ. So ABG\triangle ABG is an isosceles right triangle. Its area is (52)22=502=25\frac{(5\sqrt{2})^2}{2}=\frac{50}{2}=25. Therefore, the area of the region is 20025=(E) 175.200-25=\boxed{\textbf{(E) }175.}
--Solution by TheMaskedMagician

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