Points and are the first trisection points of sides and respectively.
If the area of is find the area of the shaded triangle.
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I placed an equilateral triangle of base 1 on a 2-dimensional rectangular coordinate system, with one vertex at the origin and side along the positive x-axis. Note that this triangle has an area of 3 / 4 . Since the area of an equilateral triangle is 4 3 s 2 , then the desired answer will be s 2 , where s is the side length of the inner equilateral triangle. Next, I figured out the equations of the three lines that lie inside the triangle: y = 5 3 x , y = − 2 3 ( x − 1 ) , and y = 3 3 ( x − 3 1 ) . Then I found two intersection points of the three lines, namely, ( 7 3 , 7 2 3 ) and ( 1 4 5 , 1 4 3 ) . So, s 2 = ( 7 3 − 1 4 5 ) 2 + ( 7 2 3 − 1 4 3 ) 2 = 7 1 .