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The Cheshire Cat grin

What is the total area of the green teeth relative to the large circle area? (Assume the inner circle radius is 80% of the outer. The 32 lines forming the tooth sides are concurrent, and spaced at equal angles apart.)

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Criss-crossing the bay

A boatsman races to cross Isosceles Bay five times, finishing at End. A bicyclist pedals around the bay. How many times faster must the bicyclist travel in order to be sure to beat the boat to End?

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Corner to corner

A rectangle inside a rectangle. What is the green area?

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All-seeing eye

If the radius shrinks by the factor 1/2 for each smaller circle, what fraction of the whole area is represented by all the blue crescents (separated by the red crescents)? Assume the circles keep going inward forever.

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Cycling of tangents

Four circles share one point. The quadrilateral has vertices which are intersections of pairs of circles, and three of its coloured edges are tangent to the circle of the same colour. Show that the fourth edge is also tangent to its circle.

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Launch the ball

Express the circle area in terms of the isosceles triangle area A and its side length a.

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The hemispheric battle

C fires at city B and D fires at city A, but their rockets collide in mid-air and fall into the ground at F. Then C fires a laser bouncing off the ground at F at the same angle as incidence. Will the laser beam hit combatant D?

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The three-body problem

Three coloured unit disks are placed so that they have a common (3-way) intersection, but none of the disks covers the intersection of the other two disks.  What is the minimum radius of the disk that would cover all intersections at once, in all cases?

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The chessboard hallucination

Behold a 13-14-15 triangle. The 15-long side is dissected into 5 equal parts and the 14-long side is dissected into 7 equal parts. What is the difference between the red and green areas?

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Circle dancing

Start with a blue triangle, and form the green triangle whose vertices bisect each circular arc connecting blue vertices. Similarly, make the red triangle from the green, and the orange triangle from the red. Prove the triangle becomes equilateral in the limit.