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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?

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Solution

The orange area is 30.

Solution by Dmitriy Spiridonov.

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