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Hello everyone! If you've missed the last couple of newsletters or just didn't open them, we're sending out a weekly super-challenging SAT question of the week each Monday, with the solution posted on Thursday. These questions are a level above the tough SAT ones, and they don't come with choice options either. This means that if you can solve these, you're pretty much ready to do well on your SATs! This week we had a math question, but get ready for a hard reading problem next week.
This week's question was…
I've got a cool rectangle called ABCD,
like the one in the picture above. Point E is the midpoint of
side BC. The (green) area of quadrilateral ABED is given by the formula . What's the area of rectangle ABCD?
And here's your answer:
First of all, let's solve out quadratic equation to find the area of ABED:
Thus A is either , i.e.
, or
and
. Clearly, A represents area so it can't be
negative, and so our only answer is
.
And so the answer is that the area of ABCD is 2 squared units.
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