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UKMT Junior Mathematical Olympiad, 2016

Geometry Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Prove it United Kingdom

The diagram shows a rectangle with length 9 cm and width 7 cm. One of the diagonals of the rectangle has been divided into seven equal parts. What is the area of the shaded region?

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