The blue quadrilateral contains a purple interior point which is a corner for two right angles. Reflect the purple point about the four sides of the quadrilateral. Show that the four image points are concyclic.
Month: August 2023
Wheel of fortune
A unit square and a point on the inscribed circle. What is a2+b2+c2+d2?
Three congruent squares share two vertices while the upper sides coincide. What’s red : blue?
The bad haircut
The symmetrical figure bounded by 4 black semicircles is what Archimedes called the “salinon” or “salt cellar”. Show it has the same area as the green disc of the same height.
Falling pillar II
Three congruent rectangles on a line. Prove that the four red points are cyclic.
The pentangle flower
Multicoloured pentangle in a red circle. Rhombuses form two levels of petals growing outward, forming a decagon. Show that the opposite sides of the two interleaved pentagons are equal in pairs and also equal and parallel to the sides of the pentangle.
The falling pillar
Three congruent rectangles on a line. What’s the angle α?
The paper airplane
Express the area of the orange triangle in terms of the areas of the other colours.
The see-through triangle
A regular hexagon and an equilateral triangle share a vertex. What is red : blue?
Guylines II
A square, two orthogonal axes and two angles. What’s the proportion α : β?