2009 AMC 10B Problem 22
Problem 22 of 25HarderGeometry
A cubical cake with edge length inches is iced on the sides and the top. It is cut vertically into three pieces as shown in this top view, where is the midpoint of a top edge. The piece whose top is triangle contains cubic inches of cake and square inches of icing. What is

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Set the top face as a square. The cut from toward the far corner creates the top triangle with legs and so area and hypotenuse
Triangle is similar to but with hypotenuse so its area is Since the cake has height the volume is
The icing on this piece is its top () plus the full cube side face it borders (), so Therefore
Thus, the correct answer is B.