What is the area of the entire figure (in terms of x) given that the segments AB, CD, EF,…, QR are all semicircle diameters, and the lengths decrease geometrically ( AB=2, CD = 2x, EF= 2x^2, GH = 2x^3,…)?
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Stars on 45
A square containing a rectangle. What is the red fraction?
Four squares
How does the average of the areas of the blue and green squares compare with the area of the purple square?
Pandora’s box II
Five squares and a diagonal. What fraction of the largest square is coloured?
The square sail
A quadrilateral and a parallelogram share two sides, and a vertex from each determine the orange square. The lengths BC, EF, AD are 4,5,7 respectively, where E and F are midpoints of AB and DC. What is the orange area?
Fair scoop
What is the ratio of areas purple : orange if the cone angle is 45°, and the circular arc is a semicircle?
Pentagon divided
Given a pentagon ABCDE, construct the points T,R,Q,U such that the segments AT, AR, AQ, and AU divide the pentagon into five equal area pieces. (Using straight edge and compass. But you may divide a segment into a number of equal segments for free.)
Squaring a rectangle II
A square contains a red rectangle with an extended side. Prove that red=|AB||AC|+|BE||CD|. By Matthew Arcus.
Crashing the kite
The orange lines are parallel, the purple lines are parallel, the dotted gray lines intersect the base at equal distances. What is the ratio of areas of the blue and green triangles?
No laughing matter
Two squares share a vertex. Each square contains a coloured rectangle with extended side. What’s green : blue? By Matthew Arcus.