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Revision as of 22:14, 7 August 2020
Point is on side of square . If has length one and has length two, then the area of the square is
Solution
Note that is a right triangle. Thus, we do Pythagorean theorem to find that side . Since this is the side length of the square, the area of is .
~superagh