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geometry intermediate
Problem
In rectangle , , , and points , , and are midpoints of , , and , respectively. Point is the midpoint of . What is the area of the shaded region?
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
Solution
Denote . Then . Let the intersection of and be , and the intersection of and be . Then we want to find the coordinates of so we can find . From our points, the slope of is , and its -intercept is just . Thus the equation for is . We can also quickly find that the equation of is . Setting the equations equal, we have . Because of symmetry, we can see that the distance from to is also , so . Now the area of the kite is simply the product of the two diagonals over . Since the length , our answer is .
Final answer
E