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Eight Sticks (Posted on 2009-04-13) Difficulty: 3 of 5
You have 8 sticks. Three of them can form the sides of a right triangle with area 50.

But you can use all eight to form a cyclic (inscribable within a circle) octagon all of whose angles are equal. What would be the area of such an octagon?

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Puzzle Thoughts Comment 4 of 4 |
The total area of the octagon = 700 square units.
  Posted by K Sengupta on 2023-08-08 21:35:47
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