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If the yellow and orange areas in the unit square in the diagram are equal to each other, how much is the red area to 4 decimal places?


The answer is 0.1716.

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2 solutions

Ahmad Saad
Jun 28, 2017

Marta Reece
Jun 28, 2017

If the yellow and orange areas are the same size, then [ A B C ] = [ A D C ] [ABC]=[ADC] .

Both are right triangles with identical hypotenuse, so if the areas are the same A B C \triangle ABC and A C D \triangle ACD are congruent.

B A C = D A C = 9 0 4 = 22. 5 \angle BAC=\angle DAC=\dfrac{90^\circ}4=22.5^\circ

B C = A B × tan ( 22. 5 ) = tan ( 22. 5 ) 2 \overline{BC}=\overline{AB}\times\tan(22.5^\circ)=\dfrac{\tan(22.5^\circ)}{2}

C E = 2 B C = tan ( 22. 5 ) = 2 2 2 + 2 \overline{CE}=2\overline{BC}=\tan(22.5^\circ)=\dfrac{\sqrt{2-\sqrt2}}{\sqrt{2+\sqrt2}}

Red area = C E 2 = 2 2 2 + 2 0.1716 =\overline{CE}^2=\dfrac{2-\sqrt2}{2+\sqrt2}\approx\boxed{0.1716}

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