AMC 12 2005a Problem 15
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Let be a diameter of a circle and be a point on with . Let and be points on the circle such that and is a second diameter. What is the ratio of the area of to the area of ?
unitsize(2.5cm);
defaultpen(fontsize(10pt)+linewidth(.8pt));
dotfactor=3;
pair O=(0,0), C=(-1/3.0), B=(1,0), A=(-1,0);
pair D=dir(aCos(C.x)), E=(-D.x,-D.y);
draw(A--B--D--cycle);
draw(D--E--C);
draw(unitcircle,white);
drawline(D,C);
dot(O);
clip(unitcircle);
draw(unitcircle);
label("",E,SSE);
label("",B,E);
label("",A,W);
label("",D,NNW);
label("",C,SW);
draw(rightanglemark(D,C,B,2));
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