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Squexagon! (Posted on 2024-07-22)

ABCDEF is a regular hexagon with sides of length h units. A square PQRS is drawn inside the hexagon, with PQ parallel to AB, SR parallel to ED, and vertices PQRS lying on FA, BC, CD and EF respectively.

The area of PQRS is 4 square units.

What is the exact value of h?

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The exact value of h is:

1+ v3

-------- =- 1..57735

Edited on July 23, 2024, 10:15 am

Posted by K Sengupta on 2024-07-23 09:52:10

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