UHS Math Club 2017-2018

Geometry Handout 1
Walker Kroubalkian
September 12, 2017

1 Problems

1. A rhombus has area 36 and the longer diagonal is twice as long as the shorter diagonal. What
is the perimeter of the rhombus?

2. Given regular hexagon ABCDEF , compute the probability that a randomly chosen point inside
the hexagon is inside triangle P QR, where P is the midpoint of AB, Q is the midpoint of CD, and
R is the midpoint of EF .

A P B

F C
R Q

E D

3. An isosceles right triangle is inscribed in a circle of radius 5, thereby separating the circle into
four regions. Compute the sum of the areas of the two smallest regions.

4. A triangle with side lengths 2 and 3 has an area of 3. Compute the third side length of the
triangle.

?
2

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5. Compute the square of the distance between the incenter (center of the inscribed circle) and
circumcenter (center of the circumscribed circle) of a 30-60-90 triangle with hypotenuse of length
2.

60◦

30◦

6. Points A, B, and C lie on a circle of radius 5 such that AB = 6 and AC = 8. Find the smaller
of the two possible values of BC.

B C

6 8

A
5

7. In quadrilateral ABCD, diagonals AC and BD intersect at E. If AB ∼

= BE = 5, EC ∼
= CD = 7,
and BC = 11, compute AE.

B
11
5 5
E
A C
? 7
7

8. Robin has obtained a circular pizza with radius 2. However, being rebellious, instead of slicing
the pizza radially, he decides to slice the pizza into 4 strips of equal width both vertically and
horizontally. What is the area of the smallest piece of pizza?

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9. ABCD is a parallelogram. AB = BC = 12, and ∠ABC = 120◦ . Calculate the area of

parallelogram ABCD.

A D

12
120◦
B 12 C

10. A circle with radius 1 has diameter AB. C lies on this circle such that the ratio of arc AC
to arc BC is 4. Segment AC divides the circle into two parts, and we will label the smaller part
Region I. Similarly, segment BC also divides the circle into two parts, and we will denote the
smaller one as Region II. Find the positive difference between the areas of Regions I and II.

I C
II
A B
1

11. In trapezoid ABCD, BC is parallel to AD, AB = 13, BC = 15, CD = 14, and AD = 30.
Find the area of ABCD.

15
B C
13 14
A D
30

12. Circle O has radius 18. From diameter AB, there exists a point C such that BC is tangent to
O and AC intersects O at a point D, with AD = 24. What is the length of BC?

D
24

A B
18 O

13. Isosceles trapezoid ABCD has AB = 10, CD = 20, BC ∼

= AD, and an area of 180. Compute
the length of BC.

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10
A B

D 20 C

14. The coordinates of three vertices of a parallelogram are A (1, 1), B (2, 4), and C (−5, 1).
Compute the area of the parallelogram.

y
B (2,4)

C (-5,1) A (1,1)

15. Given a regular 2014-gon, we construct 2014 isosceles triangles on the exterior of the polygon
such that each isosceles triangle has an edge of the polygon as its base and has legs formed by the
extensions of the two adjacent sides. Compute in degrees the largest angle of one such triangle.
(Note: This figure is not drawn to scale.)

2 Sources

1. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 5

2. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 15
3. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 17
4. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 19
5. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 24
6. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament Geometry Tiebreaker Problem 2
7. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament Geometry Tiebreaker Problem 3
8. 2013 Stanford Math Tournament Geometry Problem 3
9. 2012 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 15
10. 2012 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 17
11. 2012 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 21
12. 2012 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 23

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13. 2014 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 7

14. 2014 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 10
15. 2014 Stanford Math Tournament General Problem 15