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Fan of cards

N coloured rectangular cards are arranged with a common vertex and common angle α between cards. If a single card has perimeter P, what is the perimeter of the coloured region, in terms of N, P, and α?

Extra condition: N and α are such that at least two edges of the bottom card are visible.

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Beginner

Between the lines

Two coloured triangles share a vertex. Prove that the red line segments are parallel.

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Advanced

Drop shadow II

A right isosceles triangle contains another triangle. What is the angle α? Advanced if no trigonometry is used.

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Intermediate

The telescope

The odd regular polygons are stacked together, in increasing order, zigzagging to form a telescope that extends forever! What is the limiting angle (with respect to the horizontal) at which the telescope points?

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Beginner

Child with toy

Three squares sharing two vertices. Prove that the three red vertices are collinear.

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Intermediate

The weight lifter

Express the x coordinate of E in terms of x coordinates of A, B, F, and G. The two black lines are supposed to be parallel to the x-axis.

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Beginner

Distant sea

A rectangle with three line segments. What fraction is blue?

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Advanced

Triangles galore

Four equilateral triangles. Two centres are shown. Prove that the green quadrilateral is a parallelogram.

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Intermediate

Encircling an anvil

Two equilateral triangles, one upside down, have boundaries meeting at 4 points, 3 of which are marked in red. Show that the circle through the red points also passes through the centre point of the blue triangle.

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Beginner

Outside the pentagon

A regular pentagon and two coloured equilateral triangles. What is the angle α?