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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2019

Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The diagram shows a square made from five rectangles. Each of these rectangles has the same perimeter. What is the ratio of the area of a shaded rectangle to the area of an unshaded rectangle?

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