Problem Solving Skills for Mathcounts Competitions

Mathcounts => Mathcounts => : spotula April 17, 2013, 03:42:26 AM

: Area Problem
: spotula April 17, 2013, 03:42:26 AM

Hi,

I appreciate your help with the following

(1) I am not able to solve  Problem 27 in the following

 http://mymathcounts.com/Sam's-Math-Club/documents/MathcountsP02.pdf

Problem 27. As shown in the figure, ABC is a triangle with the area 1. Extend BA to D such that DA = AB. Extend CA to E such that EA = 2AC. Extend CB to F such that FB = 3BC. Find the area of triangle DEF.

Thanks

: Re: Area Problem
: yongcheng3315 April 17, 2013, 07:46:21 AM

Solution:

http://www.mymathcounts.com/Forum/index.php?topic=2339.0

: Re: Area Problem
: spotula April 17, 2013, 09:57:33 AM

Beautiful. Thanks :)