The diagram below shows a rectangle with side lengths and and a square with side length . Three vertices of the square lie on three different sides of the rectangle, as shown. What is the area of the region inside both the square and the rectangle?
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Solution
Let us label the points on the diagram.
By doing some angle chasing using the fact that and are right angles, we find that . Similarly, . Therefore, .
As we are given a rectangle and a square, and . Therefore, is a -- right triangle and .
is also . So, using the similar triangles, and .
. Using the similar triangles again, is of the corresponding . So,
Finally, we have
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