Question

Problems $7, 8,$ and $9$ are about these kites.

To promote her school’s annual Kite Olympics, Genevieve makes a small kite and a large kite for a bulletin board display. The kites look like the one in the diagram. For her small kite Genevieve draws the kite on a one-inch grid. For the large kite she triples both the height and width of the entire grid.

What is the number of square inches in the area of the small kite?

$21$

$22$

$23$

$24$

$25$

Solution:

Recall that the area of a kite is the product of its diagonals divided by $2.$

Therefore, the area of the small kite is $\dfrac{6 \cdot 7}{2} = \dfrac{42}{2} = 21.$

Thus, A is the correct answer.

2001 AMC 8 Problem 7

Solution:

Problem 7 in Other Years