The unit square is rotated about the origin by anti-clockwise. (a) Find the matrix of this transformation. (b) Draw the unit square and its image on the same set of axes. (c) Find the area of the over lapping region.
Remember the general rotation matrix is
Hence
The unit square has co-ordinates
Unit Square
Transform the unit square
Unit Square and Transformed Unit Square
The overlapping area is the area of – the area of
We know because the diagonal of a square bisects the angle.
We know is a right angle as it’s on a straight line with the vertex of a square.
Two rectangular garden beds have a combined area of . The larger bed has twice the perimeter of the smaller and the larger side of the smaller bed is equal to the smaller side of the larger bed. If the two beds are not similar, and if all edges are a whole number of metres, what is the length, in metres, of the longer side of the larger bed? AMC 2007 S.14
Let’s draw a diagram
From the information in the question, we know
(1)
and
(2)
Equation becomes
As the sides are whole numbers, consider the factors of 40.
Remember
Perimeter Large
Perimeter Small
Comment
must be greater than
This one works
This one also works
not a whole number
Not possible
Not possible
Not possible
There are two possibilities
The large garden bed could be by and the smaller by (Area Perimeters and )
or
The large garden bed could be by and the smaller by (Area Perimeters and )
I am came across this problem and was fascinated. It’s from this book
At first I went straight to the 14-sided polygon, and tried to draw the diamonds (parallelograms), but then I thought let’s start smaller and see if there is a pattern.
Clearly a square contains 1 diamond (itself).
Pentagon
It’s not possible with a pentagon.
Hexagon
A hexagon has 6 diamonds
Septagon
I am guessing it’s not possible to fill a regular 7-sided shape with diamonds
It’s not possible with odd numbers of sides. Regular polygons with an odd number of sides have no parallel sides, so we can’t cover it with rhombi (which have opposite sides parallel).
Octagon
An octagon has 6 diamonds.
We know a decoagon has 10 diamonds (from the question)
Let’s put together what we know
Diamonds
These are the triangular numbers, so when the number of diamonds is , and for it’s .
We can work out a rule for calculating the number of diamonds given the number of sides.
Because the difference in the values is not , I am going to get and in terms of and then combine the two equations.
From the above table,
We know this rule is quadratic as the second difference is constant, hence
(1)
(2)
Solve simultaneously, subtract equation from equation
This problem is from The Geometry Forum Problem of the Week June 1996
In triangle ABC, AC=18 and D is the point on AC for which AD=5. Perpendiculars drawn from D to AB and CB have lengths of 4 and 5 respectively. What is the area of triangle ABC?
I put together a diagram (in Geogebra)
Add points P and Q
Triangle APD and triangle DQC are right angled. Using pythagoras, and
is a cyclic quadrilateral and is the diameter. I am not sure if this is useful, but it is good to notice.