1994 AHSME Problems/Problem 2
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A large rectangle is partitioned into four rectangles by two segments parallel to its sides. The areas of three of the resulting rectangles are shown. What is the area of the fourth rectangle?
Solution
We can easily see the dimensions of each small rectangle. So the area of the last rectangle is .
--Solution by TheMaskedMagician
Solution 2
In case its not immediately obvious from inspection what the dimensions of the small rectangles are, we can work it out. We know and and and we want to know . We can compute it as follows and the answer is
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