Tag: preserving area

How to transform a pentagon into a triangle of the same area

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

Transforming shapes without changing their areas

Under any of Euclidean transformations—reflection, rotation, and translation, the shape of a geometric object will not change; only the position and orientation of the object will change. That is, the object and its transformation are congruent. How about when the shape can change but the area remain unchanged? Try this problem.   Problem How do you