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geometry senior
Problem
is a triangle: and both the coordinates of are integers. What is the minimum area can have?
Solution
Let have coordinates . Then by the Shoelace Formula, the area of is . Since and are integers, is a positive integer, and by Bezout's Lemma, it can equal (e.g. with ), so the minimum area is .
Final answer
\frac{3}{2}