Problem

2001 AMC 8 Problem 7

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 below. 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. [asy] for (int a = 0; a < 7; ++a) { for (int b = 0; b < 8; ++b) { dot((a,b)); } } draw((3,0)--(0,5)--(3,7)--(6,5)--cycle); [/asy]

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

\text{(A)}\ 21 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 22 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 23 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 24 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 25


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