Try this beautiful problem from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination I, AIME I, 2008 based on Squares and Triangles.
Square AIME has sides of length 10 units, isosceles triangle GEM has base EM, and the area common to triangle GEM and square AIME is 80 square units.Find the length of the altitude to EM in triangle GEM.
Squares
Trapezium
Triangles
Answer: is 25.
AIME I, 2008, Question 2
Geometry Revisited by Coxeter
let X and Y be points where the triangle intersects the square and [AXE]=[YIM]=\(\frac{100-80}{2}\)=10 then AX=YI=2 units then XY=10-4=6 units
triangle GXY is similar to triangle GEM where h=height of triangle GXY then by similarity \(\frac{h+10}{10}=\frac{h}{6}\)
then h=15 and h+10=25.
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