Every pentagon

Geometry Level pending

On the perimeter of a square, fix a starting point. Mark out every fifth of the perimeter, and connect up these 5 points to form a pentagon. For example, if we started out with the top left corner, we will obtain:

Let x x be the ratio of the area of the pentagon to the square. If the difference of the maximum and minimum values of x x can be expressed in the form a b \large \frac {a}{b} , where a a and b b are coprime positive integers, determine the value of

3 × ( a + b ) 3 \times (a + b) .


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The answer is 153.

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