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Washington State Math Olympiad
Hints and Solutions
2009 Grade 6 Geometry

Problem
Hint
1) What is the area of the shaded portion of the circle of radius 5 units? Point P is the center of the circle. You may give an exact answer or an approximation to the nearest tenth using the approximation = 3.14.
1. Compute the total angle at point P of the white sector = ____
2. Compute the fraction of the total square area the shaded area is ______
3. Compute the area of the total circle =_______.
4. Multiply this by the fraction of it that is shaded = _____
2) The formula for the area of a triangle is often gotten by looking at a related parallelogram. For triangle ABC shown on the coordinate grid what are the coordinates of the vertices of a parallelogram in the first quadrant that has twice the area of the triangle and contains the triangle? 1. If you complete the parallelogram using the 3 given points you will double the triangle area.
2. Compute the offset of point A from point C
    (this is C - A) = (___,___).
3. Apply this offset to point B to compute point D
    that completes the parallelogram = (___,___)
3) The surface area of a rectangular prism box is 288 square inches. Another rectangular prism box has double each dimension so twice the length, twice the width and twice the height or the first box. What is its surface are a? Doubling each dimension increases the surface area
    by a factor of (2 x 2) = 4.
    New area = _____

Problem
Hint

4) The rhombus in quadrant I is reflected across the x-axis. Sketch and label its coordinates on the coordinate axes provided on the answer sheet.
1. To reflect coordinates in Quadrant I around the x-axis just chance the signs of their Y coordinates.
2. The new points are _____, _____, ____, _______
Plot these points:
5) Two congruent isosceles triangles are joined together along a side to create a kite as shown. The perimeter of one of the triangles is 30 units. The lengths of the sides of the triangle are all whole numbers. What is the length of the longest side of the triangle if the perimeter of the kite is as long as possible? Since the lengths of the sides are all whole numbers and the perimeter of each triangle is 30, you can make a table like this:      
PerimeterLong side
length
Short side
length
301010
   
   
    
   
   
Keep adding to the long side until the short side goes to zero.