2006 AIME II Problems/Problem 1
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Problem
In convex hexagon 
, all six sides are congruent, 
and 
are right angles, and 
and 
are congruent. The area of the hexagonal region is 
Find 
.
Solution
Let the side length be called 
, so 
.
The diagonal 
. Then the areas of the triangles AFB and CDE in total are 
,
and the area of the rectangle BCEF equals 
Then we have to solve the equation
.
Therefore, is 
.
Solution 2
Because 
, 
, 
, and are congruent, the degree-measure of each of them is 
. Lines 
and 
divide the hexagonal region into two right triangles and a rectangle. Let 
. Then 
. Thus
$\begin{align*}
2116(\sqrt2+1)&=[ABCDEF]\\
&=2\cdot {1\over2}x^2+x\cdot x\sqrt2=x^2(1+\sqrt2),
\end{align*}so$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)x^2=2116
x=\boxed{46}$.
[asy] pair A,B,C,D,I,F; A=(0,0); B=(7,0); F=(0,7); I=(6,13); D=(13,13); C=(13,6); dot(A); dot(B); dot(C); dot(D); dot(I); dot(F); draw(A--B--C--D--I--F--cycle,linewidth(0.7)); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)A$}",A,S); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)B$}",B,S); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)C$}",C,E); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)D$}",D,N); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)E$}",I,N); label("{\tiny$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)F$}",F,W); [/asy]
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