In the figure,
is a square; the area of the orange rectangle is 48;
, and
.
What is the area of the part colored green?
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Let the side length of square A B C D be a . Then A E = 2 5 1 6 a and A F = 2 5 9 a . Then A E + A F = a .
Let F G = E H = b . We note that △ A F G and △ A E H are similar. Therefore,
A F F G A F b ⟹ b 2 ⟹ b = E H A E = b A E = A E ⋅ A F = 2 5 1 6 a ⋅ 2 5 9 a = 2 5 1 2 a
Now, we note that the area of the orange rectangle is a b = 2 5 1 2 a 2 = 4 8 . Then the area of square A B C D , a 2 = 4 8 × 1 2 2 5 = 1 0 0 . Then the area of the green part:
[ G B C D H ] = [ A B C D ] − [ A G H ] = 1 0 0 − 2 4 = 7 6 Note that [ A G H ] = 2 1 [ E F G H ]