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How does the average of the areas of the blue and green squares compare with the area of the purple square?

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Solution

The average of green and blue is equal to purple.

Solution by Matthew Arcus.

The dashed Pythagorean triangle gives a fairly direct visual proof that blue+green = 2*purple.

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