A fractional problem

Geometry Level 3

ABCD is a square, With E and F be the midpoints of the side CD and BD respectively, BC here being a diagonal of the square then what fraction of the square is shaded purple?

1/4 1/3 3/8 1/5

Ajay Sambhriya by Ajay Sambhriya , 27, India

This section requires Javascript.
You are seeing this because something didn't load right. We suggest you, (a) try refreshing the page, (b) enabling javascript if it is disabled on your browser and, finally, (c) loading the non-javascript version of this page . We're sorry about the hassle.

1 solution

Ajay Sambhriya
Nov 7, 2017

Total area = 4/48 + 1/4 = 4/48 + 12/48 = 16/48 = 1/3

1 Helpful 0 Interesting 0 Brilliant 0 Confused

Why are those pieces A/48 exactly?

Peter van der Linden - 3 years, 7 months ago

Each one is equal in area, and collectively they make half of the 1/4th of the Square as the figure depicts

Ajay Sambhriya - 3 years, 7 months ago

0 pending reports

×

Problem Loading...

Note Loading...

Set Loading...