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geometry senior
Problem
Triangles and have areas and respectively, with and What is the sum of all possible -coordinates of ?
Solution
Let be the length of the altitude from in . Then so . Thus is on one of the lines or .
Line has equation . Let have coordinates . By the formula for the distance from a point to a line, the distance from to line is . The area of is Thus , and the sum of the four possible values of is .
Line has equation . Let have coordinates . By the formula for the distance from a point to a line, the distance from to line is . The area of is Thus , and the sum of the four possible values of is .
Final answer
1200