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Problem 1071

AMC 12 late, AIME early
Geometry Difficulty 5.0 Find the answer HMMT February

Let ABCABC be an acute triangle with incenter II and circumcenter OO. Assume that OIA=90\angle OIA=90^{\circ}. Given that AI=97AI=97 and BC=144BC=144, compute the area of ABC\triangle ABC.

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Official solution

We present five different solutions and outline a sixth and seventh one. In what follows, let a=BCa=BC, b=CAb=CA, c=ABc=AB as usual, and denote by rr and RR the inradius and circumradius. Let s=12(a+b+c)s=\frac{1}{2}(a+b+c). In the first five solutions we will only prove that AIO=90b+c=2a\angle AIO=90^{\circ} \Longrightarrow b+c=2a. Let us see how this solves the problem. This lemma implies that s=216s=216. If we let EE be the foot of II on ABAB, then AE=sBC=72AE=s-BC=72, consequently the inradius is r=972722=65r=\sqrt{97^{2}-72^{2}}=65. Finally, the area is sr=21665=14040sr=216 \cdot 65=14040.

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