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Drilling site

A blue flagpole is erected near a drilling site. Lines are drilled perpendicular to the flagpole guy wires and meet at the bottom of the orange drilling pipe. What is the ratio of distances green to red?

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A devious cevian

A triangle with a cevian. It is split into two similar triangles. What is angle ABC?

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Triangulation

A regular dodecagon contains a yellow square. Find the three angles α, β and γ.

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Paranoid centroid

A square is divided in four triangles of which the red centroids are shown. What fraction is green?

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The Siamese triplet

Three circles with a common intersection point and two triangles. What is α : β?

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Nearly the same

Two rectangles are positioned with the side of each one along the diagonal on the other. Furthermore, two of their sides have the same length, as marked. What is the quotient of areas (A+B)/(C+D)?

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The blue lagoon

Five congruent brown triangles inside a rectangle. What fraction is brown?

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Squaring the quad

Form inward semicircles (orange) and outward semicircles (purple) on two opposite sides of a quadrilateral. Connect the midpoints of the orange arcs, intersecting with the purple arcs. Show that you obtain two corners of an enclosing square.

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Square construction

Given the blue square AEFI and a point B inside, show that the intersection H of the red and purple semicircles will be a corner of a square containing B on one side and A on another, and sharing the corner I with the blue square.

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Bullseye

Blue and orange concentric circles intersect a vertical line in green dots. Show that the dots are equally spaced, given that the red intervals shown are of equal length. (The largest circle has radius 2u.)