In a rectangular trapezoid ABCD, the angle is D = 90. Point K lies on the base of AD so that AK = KD and BK
In a rectangular trapezoid ABCD, the angle is D = 90. Point K lies on the base of AD so that AK = KD and BK is perpendicular to BC, O is the middle of the diagonal BD. Prove: AB: AD = BO: BC. Find: the area of the triangle. ABD, if the area of the pentagon is 30 cm2.
Since, by condition, AK = DK, and ВK is perpendicular to BC, and therefore perpendicular to AD, then ВK is the height and median of triangle ABD, and triangle ABD is isosceles.
Then Svcd = Svka.
In the rectangle DСВК ВD is the diagonal and divides the rectangle into two equal triangles Sdw = Sdkv. Then Strapezium = Savd + Ssvd = 3 * Ssvd.
Svd = 30/3 = 10 cm2, then Svd = 2 * Svd = 2 * 10 = 20 cm2.
In the triangle BOC, CB = DА / 2, ОВ = ВD / 2, the angle CBO = ВDА as criss-crossing, then the triangles BOC and ABC are similar in two proportional sides and the angle between them. Then:
BD / AD = BO / BC, and since BD = AB, then AB / AD = BO / BC, which was required to be proved.
Answer: The area of the triangle ABC is 20 cm2.