What is Area of triangle?
The area of a triangle is defined as the total space that is enclosed by any particular triangle. The basic formula to find the area of a given triangle is $A = 1/2 × b × h$, where $b$ is the base and $h$ is the height of the given triangle. Here we have to find the side of triangle.
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The area of $ \triangle (EBD) $ is one third of the area of $ \triangle (ABC) $. Segment is perpendicular to segment $ (AB) $. What is $ (BD) $?
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2011 AMC 10B-Problem 9
Geometry
6 out of 10
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Notice that here $\triangle ABC$ and $\triangle BDE$ are similar.
Therefore $DE$=$\frac{3}{4} BD$
Now we have to find the area.
We know this is = $\frac{1}{2}$ $ \times$ base $ \times$ height.
Now using this formula can you find the area of $ \triangle ABC $ and $ \triangle BDE $?
Now $ \triangle ABC $ = $ \frac{1}{2} \times 3 \times 4$ =$6$ and $ \triangle BDE $= $ \frac{1}{2} \times DE \times BD$ = $ \frac{1}{2}$* $ \frac{3}{4} \times BD $ $ \times$ $BD$ = $ \frac{3}{8} BD^2$
Again we know the area of $ \triangle BDE$ is one third of the area of $ \triangle ABC $ .
Therefore, $ \frac{3}{8} BD^2$ = $6$ $ \times$ $ \frac{1}{3}$
$9*BD^2$=$48$ , or,$BD^2$=$ \frac{48}{9}$ , or, $BD^2$=$ \frac{16}{3}$
so, the answer is= $BD$=$\frac{4 \sqrt3}{3}$