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UKMT Senior Mathematical Challenge, 2022

Geometry Difficulty 2.0 Junior Find the answer United Kingdom

In the diagram, the outer hexagon is regular and has an area of $216$ . What is the shaded area?

(A) $108$ (B) $96$ (C) $90$ (D) $84$ (E) $72$

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