2006 AIME I Problems/Problem 7

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Problem

An angle is drawn on a set of equally spaced parallel lines as shown. The ratio of the area of shaded region $\mathcal{C}$ to the area of shaded region $\mathcal{B}$ is 11/5. Find the ratio of shaded region $\mathcal{D}$ to the area of shaded region $\mathcal{A}.$

Solution

Note that the apex of the angle is not on the parallel lines. Set up a coordinate proof.

Let the set of parallel lines be perpendicular to the x-axis, such that they cross it at $0, 1, 2 \ldots$ . The base of region $\mathcal{A}$ is on the line $x = 1$ . The bigger base of region $\mathcal{D}$ is on the line $x = 7$ . Let the top side of the angle be $y = x - s$ and the bottom side be x-axis, as halve the angle by folding doesn't change the problem.

Since the area of the triangle is equal to $\frac{1}{2}bh$ ,

$\frac{\textrm{Region\ }\mathcal{C}}{\textrm{Region\ }\mathcal{B}} = \frac{11}{5}= \frac{\frac 12(5-s)^2 - \frac 12(4-s)^2}{\f...$

Solve this to find that $s = \frac{5}{6}$ .

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