Two touching circles and a common tangent. Three triangles are formed by tangency points and centres. What is the area of the green triangle X in terms of areas A and B?
Category: Intermediate
Softening the edges
A quarter circle contains a semicircle and a square. What fraction of the area is purple?
The honeycomb
Two regular hexagons inscribed in a square. If the hexagons have side length a and b, what is the square’s side length?
The folded napkin
A square sheet of paper is folded symmetrically from a corner. If the fold length is 4, what is the area of the triangle formed by the other three corners?
Together we stand
Two squares sharing a vertex. What’s the angle α?
The pleasure dome
A semicircle with three squares. The areas of the smaller squares are given. What is the area of the biggest one?
Pyramidion
A triangle containing a semicircle and an equilateral triangle. What fraction is golden?
Triple dice
An equilateral triangle with three congruent squares. What’s the angle α?
Paper hat II
Two overlapping congruent right triangles. If |AB|=15 and |BC|=7, what is the total area?
En garde
An isosceles triangle with two altitudes dividing each other in segments of length 4 and 5. What is the total triangle area?