of side length has a 4-pointed star inscribed in it - its points touch the midpoints of each side of the square, and it has lines of symmetry and .
A squareGiven that the angle between the points is , the area of the shaded region can be written as where , and are coprime. Find .
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My solution is similar to Ruslan's. Consider the isosceles triangle formed by the left point A of the star, the upper point B of the star, and the point C where the 1 2 0 o angle is given. Then A B = 2 , the height of this triangle over AB is h = tan ( 3 0 o ) × 2 A B = 6 6 , and the area is F = 2 ( A B ) h = 6 3 . Considering the square formed by the points of the star, we see that the shaded area is 2 − 4 F = 3 6 − 2 3 .