A triangle is divided in four. What is the black area?
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Solution
The black area is 17.
This solution uses the interesting technique of mass points. It basically assigns point masses to the vertices and calculates the centre of mass using cevian proportions. In this case the starting point is the 3 at the lower left corner. The other masses follow from the geometry.
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