Problem 51173. Squares inside a square!
If you have a square has a side (x) that is divided into four squares. Two of those squares carries smaller squares inside them. Each side carries 5 squares. Find the area of one of these small squares.
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Rafael S.T. Vieira
on 5 Nov 2022
Problems that involve geometry should have an auxiliary image. I can draw thousands of sketches that fit your description, yet only one of them is probably what you mean. Human language is imprecise.
Advait
on 30 Nov 2024 at 0:35
If anyone else had trouble visualizing the shape:
Imagine the divided square being subdivided into a 5x5 grid. Find the area of one of the boxes in this grid.
Drawing it out let me see it better.
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