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Here's the problem: You have two semicircles of radius 1 on top of an isosceles triangle of base and height 4, making a heart shape.
You make two lines, as shown, that divides the heart into three shapes of equal area. What is the length of each of these lines?
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Consider that the central area is a kite, which has area pq/2, where p and q are the diagonals. The area of this kite is given by one third the area of the shape, (pi+8)/3. Also consider that the lower triangle created by drawing the horizontal diagonal is similar to the original isosceles triangle. You should be able to find the legs of the right triangles formed by the diagonals, for which x is the hypotenuse, and find the length to be approximately 2.33555.
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