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The corner pocket

A snooker player wants to corner a ball starting from a point on one side and bouncing two times from the opposite sides. Given the dimensions of the table in the figure, what’s the length of the track the snooker ball travels?

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Balancing balls

Two touching circles are placed on top of a right triangle. What’s the angle between the chords connecting the tangency points?

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The marble box

Two marbles of sizes π and 4π are enclosed in a rectangular box. What is the total area of the box?

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The triangle tango

An isosceles triangle is attached to another triangle with a 60-degree angle as shown. Their opposite vertices are connected by a line segment of length 2. What is the area of the quadrilateral?

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The Pentagon peaches

Five equally sized peaches are closely packed in a pentagon-shaped box. Their midpoints are the vertices of a smaller pentagon. What fraction is shaded?

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An Egyptian sunset

A semicircle touches a large equilateral triangle (area equals 9) at its apex and a smaller adjacent equilateral triangle (area equals 1) at its base as shown. What is the total red area?