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Geometry Difficulty 4.7 AIME Find the answer

Suppose rectangle FOLKF O L K and square LOREL O R E are on the plane such that RL=12R L=12 and RK=11R K=11. Compute the product of all possible areas of triangle RKLR K L.

A number or a short expression. Fractions can be typed as 3/2, and spacing doesn't matter.

Solution

There are two possible configurations. If RL=12R L=12, the side length of the square is 626 \sqrt{2}. Now 121=RK2=RE2+EK2=(62)2+EK2121=R K^{2}=R E^{2}+E K^{2}=(6 \sqrt{2})^{2}+E K^{2} so EK=7E K=7. Then the possible values of LKL K are 62±76 \sqrt{2} \pm 7. Note that the area of RLK\triangle R L K is LKRE2=LK32\frac{L K \cdot R E}{2}=L K \cdot 3 \sqrt{2} and so the product of all possible areas are 32(62+7)32(627)=(62+7)(627)(32)2=(7249)18=414\begin{aligned} 3 \sqrt{2}(6 \sqrt{2}+7) \cdot 3 \sqrt{2}(6 \sqrt{2}-7) & =(6 \sqrt{2}+7)(6 \sqrt{2}-7) \cdot(3 \sqrt{2})^{2} \\ & =(72-49) \cdot 18=414 \end{aligned}

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