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The blue wink

A semicircle inscribed in a triangle inscribed in a semicircle. What fraction of the total area is blue?

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Solution

The blue fraction is 1/6.

Solution by Ignacio Larrosa Cañestro.

Poem

The winks of fate
Are mysterious and
Can end in love or hate
One can leave or stay
Or just follow our destiny
And get a wink from the stars
The story of our life
Is more than just a wink from the sky
In a wink everything can change
Life on earth in a wink can end quickly

Bella

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