ABCD is a square and G is a point on its diagonal. Obviously, the two colored rectangles have equal area: ab. What about in the figure below? Problem: ACDB is a rectangle. E is a point on the diagonal. Which rectangle has a bigger area? GEIA or FEHD? Answer The diagonal divides a rectangle
Problem 1 Show that the area of a trapezoid (trapezium) is half its height times the sum of the parallel sides. Solution Cut the trapezoid along the midpoints of the pair of non-parallel side. This halves its height. Rotate one of the parts 180 degrees about a midpoint. In the figure below, it’s about the
This is the third in the series of problems involving transforming polygons into another polygon where the area is preserved. The first is about transforming a shape into another shape of the same area and the second is about transforming a quadrilateral into a triangle of the same area. The following problem builds on the