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@Scroogey
15 Jan
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on: [Not-so-daily puzzle] A fun geometry puzzle
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It might help to assemble four quarter circles into a full one:
Let's say the doubly shaded right triangles have shorter sides
x \gt y
.
The outer square's side length is
2x+12
, area
4x^2+48x+144
.
We have to subtract the four white rectangles with area
1+x
each.
Further add the doubly shaded triangle areas
2xy
(they count twice).
Then the answer is obviously a fourth of that.
That's how far I got, but I couldn't get
x
and
y
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@south_korea_ln
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15 Jan
I didn't proceed that way, but I imagine this may work too. I'll post the answer tomorrow.
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x \gt y
.2x+12
, area4x^2+48x+144
.1+x
each.2xy
(they count twice).x
andy
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