2016 AMC 12B Problems/Problem 17
Problem
In shown in the figure,
,
,
, and
is an altitude. Points
and
lie on sides
and
, respectively, so that
and
are angle bisectors, intersecting
at
and
, respectively. What is
?
Solution
Get the area of the triangle by heron's formula:
Use the area to find the height AH with known base BC:
Apply angle bisector theorem on triangle
and triangle
, we get
and
, respectively.
From now, you can simply use the answer choices because only choice
has
in it and we know that
the segments on it all have integral lengths so that
will remain there.
However, by scaling up the length ratio:
and
.
we get
.
See Also
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