Problems

A semicircle has diameter $\overline{AB}$ and chord $\overline{CD}$ of length $16$ parallel to $\overline{AB}$ . A smaller semicircle with diameter on $\overline{AB}$ and tangent to $\overline{CD}$ is cut from the larger semicircle, as shown below. What is the area of the resulting figure, shown shaded?

In the figure below, the outside square contains infinitely many squares, each of them with the same center and sides parallel to the outside square. The ratio of the side length of a square to the side length of the next inner square is $k$ , where $0 < k < 1.$ The spaces between squares are alternately shaded as …

A point $P$ is chosen at random inside square $ABCD$ . The probability that $\overline{AP}$ is neither the shortest nor the longest side of $\triangle APB$ can be written as $\frac{a + b \pi - c \sqrt{d}}{e}$ , where $a, b, c, d,$ and $e$ are positive integers, $\text{gcd}(a, b, c, e) = 1$ , and $d$ is not divisible by …

The line $y = \frac{1}{3}x + 1$ divides the square region defined by $0 \leq x \leq 2$ and $0 \leq y \leq 2$ into an upper and lower region. The line $x=a$ divides the lower region into two regions of equal area. Then $a$ can be written as $\sqrt{s} - t$ , where $s$ and $t$ are positive integers. What is $s+t$ ?

The figure below shows an equilateral triangle, a rhombus with a $60^\circ$ angle, and a regular hexagon, each of them containing some mutually tangent congruent disks. Let $T, R,$ and $H,$ respectively, denote the ratio in each case of the total area of the disks to the area of the enclosing polygon. Which of the …

A container has a $1\times 1$ square bottom, a $3\times 3$ open square top, and four congruent trapezoidal sides, as shown. Starting when the container is empty, a hose that runs water at a constant rate takes $35$ minutes to fill the container up to the midline of the trapezoids. How many more minutes will it take …

One side of an equilateral triangle of height $24$ lies on line $\ell$ . A circle of radius $12$ is tangent to line $\ell$ and is externally tangent to the triangle. The area of the region exterior to the triangle and the circle and bounded by the triangle, the circle, and line $\ell$ can be written as …

Let $\mathcal K$ be the kite formed by joining two right triangles with legs $1$ and $\sqrt3$ along a common hypotenuse. Eight copies of $\mathcal K$ are used to form the polygon shown below. What is the area of triangle $\Delta ABC$ ?

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ is a parallelogram, and $E$ is the midpoint of the side $\overline{AD}$ . Let $F$ be the intersection of lines $EB$ and $AC$ . What is the ratio of the area of quadrilateral $CDEF$ to the area of $\triangle CFB$ ?

In the figure below $WXYZ$ is a rectangle with $WX=4$ and $WZ=8$ . Point $M$ lies $\overline{XY}$ , point $A$ lies on $\overline{YZ}$ , and $\angle WMA$ is a right angle. The areas of $\triangle WXM$ and $\triangle WAZ$ are equal. What is the area of $\triangle WMA$ ? Note: On certain tests that took place in China, …

Six regular hexagonal blocks of side length $1$ unit are arranged inside a regular hexagonal frame. Each block lies along an inside edge of the frame and is aligned with two other blocks, as shown in the figure below. The distance from any corner of the frame to the nearest vertex of a block is $\frac{3}{7}$ unit. What …

What is the area of the region in the coordinate plane defined by $$| | x | - 1 | + | | y | - 1 | \le 1?$$

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ with side lengths $AB=7, BC=24, CD=20, DA=15$ is inscribed in a circle. The area interior to the circle but exterior to the quadrilateral can be written in the form $\frac{a\pi-b}{c},$ where $a,b,$ and $c$ are positive integers such that $a$ and $c$ have no common prime factor. What is $a+b+c?$

A bowl is formed by attaching four regular hexagons of side $1$ to a square of side $1$ . The edges of the adjacent hexagons coincide, as shown in the figure. What is the area of the octagon obtained by joining the top eight vertices of the four hexagons, situated on the rim of the bowl?

The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths $4$ and $8$ and a square with side length $5$ . Three vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle, as shown. What is the area of the region inside both the square and the rectangle?

The area of the region bounded by the graph of $$x^2+y^2 = 3|x-y| + 3|x+y|$$ is $m+n\pi$ , where $m$ and $n$ are integers. What is $m + n$ ?

The figure is constructed from $11$ line segments, each of which has length $2$ . The area of pentagon $ABCDE$ can be written as $\sqrt{m} + \sqrt{n}$ , where $m$ and $n$ are positive integers. What is $m + n ?$

A square with side length $8$ is colored white except for $4$ black isosceles right triangular regions with legs of length $2$ in each corner of the square and a black diamond with side length $2\sqrt{2}$ in the center of the square, as shown in the diagram. A circular coin with diameter $1$ is dropped onto the square …

A disk of radius $1$ rolls all the way around the inside of a square of side length $s>4$ and sweeps out a region of area $A$ . A second disk of radius $1$ rolls all the way around the outside of the same square and sweeps out a region of area $2A$ . The value of $s$ can be written as $a+\frac{b\pi}{c}$ , where $a,b$ , …

What is the area of the shaded figure shown below?

A regular hexagon of side length $1{ }$ is inscribed in a circle. Each minor arc of the circle determined by a side of the hexagon is reflected over that side. What is the area of the region bounded by these $6$ reflected arcs?

Three identical square sheets of paper each with side length $6{ }$ are stacked on top of each other. The middle sheet is rotated clockwise $30^\circ$ about its center and the top sheet is rotated clockwise $60^\circ$ about its center, resulting in the $24$ -sided polygon shown in the figure below. The area of this …

Seven cubes, whose volumes are $1$ , $8$ , $27$ , $64$ , $125$ , $216$ , and $343$ cubic units, are stacked vertically to form a tower in which the volumes of the cubes decrease from bottom to top. Except for the bottom cube, the bottom face of each cube lies completely on top of the cube below it. What is the total …

Triangle $AMC$ is isosceles with $AM = AC$ . Medians $\overline{MV}$ and $\overline{CU}$ are perpendicular to each other, and $MV=CU=12$ . What is the area of $\triangle AMC?$

Quadrilateral $ABCD$ satisfies $\angle ABC = \angle ACD = 90^{\circ}, AC=20,$ and $CD=30.$ Diagonals $\overline{AC}$ and $\overline{BD}$ intersect at point $E,$ and $AE=5.$ What is the area of quadrilateral $ABCD?$