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by rupsk » Tue Nov 15, 2011 4:58 pm
In the figure above an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 18 inches is surrounded by a border square root of 3 inches thick. What is the area of the border?
18*square root of 3
21*square root of 3
24*square root of 3
27*square root of 3
36*square root of 3


I had solved in below way
side of small triangle =6 height=3*square root of 3
big triangle height=3*square root of 3 + 2*square root of 3=5*square root of 3
side=(2/square root of 3)*5*square root of 3

required area= (square root of 3/4)(100-36)=16*square root of 3
But there is no option available for my answer.
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by user123321 » Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:18 pm
for these two equilateral triangles, the centroid is same. and we know for smaller triangle
1/3rd of height of triangle gives distance from mid point of a side to centroid
=> (1/3)(root(3)/2)*6 = root(3)
for big triangle the thickness is root(3).
so for big triangle the distance from mid point to its centroid = root(3)+root(3) = 2root(3)
hence the height of big triangle = 3 * (2root(3)) = 6*root(3)
so side of big traingle = 12
big triangle area minus small triangle area = root(3)/4 * (12^2-6^2) = 27*root(3)

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by rupsk » Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:22 pm
please explain how you got height of big triangle.
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by user123321 » Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:27 pm
rupsk wrote:please explain how you got height of big triangle.
Sure no problem.
first of all we need to know that...distance from centroid to midpoint of a side = 1/3 of height of traingle -(1)
now back to question.
for big triangle, the distance from centroid to its side = distance from centroid to small traingle's side + thickness of the strip = root(3) + root(3)

so for big traingle from (1), its height is 3*2root(3)
from this you can get side of big triangle.

And after that you can calculate difference of areas of two traingles and you can get the answer.

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