1955 AMC 12 Problem 48
Attempt Problem 48 of the 1955 AMC 12 below, then check your answer against the professionally curated solution from LIVE by Po-Shen Loh. You can also try the full timed exam, view all 1955 AMC 12 solutions, or check the answer key.
All problems are used with official legal permission of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA).
48.
Given triangle with medians parallel and equal in length to and are drawn; extended meets in Which one of the following statements is not necessarily correct?
is a parallelogram
is a median of triangle
Answer: B
Small Hint:
Place and compute the midpoints
Big Hint:
Use , then locate where reaches height
Solution:
Set Then Since we get The horizontal line meets halfway from to at These coordinates verify that is a parallelogram, and is the midpoint of making a median. But which are not generally equal.
Thus, statement B is not necessarily correct.