The diameter of the semicircle is a side of a rectangle. Show that for any such rectangle, and any point along its top edge, the configuration produces three collinear red dots.
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Crazy hat
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Bottoming out
Two squares and a circle. What’s the angle α?
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The tipi entrance
A semicircle with three tangents. Prove that purple : green = red : yellow.
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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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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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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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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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Baby block II
A square containing another square with an extended side. What is tan(α) in terms of the red and green segment lengths?
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Tilted hourglass III
A regular hexagon, a circle through its red centre and two line segments. What’s blue : orange?
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Primary colours
An equilateral triangle inside a rectangle. What is red : yellow : blue?