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In the diagram below, $ABCD$ is a square. Point $E$ is the midpoint of $\overline{AD}$. Points $F$ and $G$ lie on $\overline{CE}$, and $H$ and $J$ lie on $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{BC}$, respectively, so that $FGHJ$ is a square. Points $K$ and $L$ lie on $\overline{GH}$, and $M$ and $N$ lie on $\overline{AD}$ and $\overline{AB}$, respectively, so that $KLMN$ is a square. The area of $KLMN$ is $99$. Find the area of $FGHJ$.


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Let $ABCDE$ be an equiangular convex pentagon of perimeter $1$. The pairwise intersections of the lines that extend the sides of the pentagon determine a five-pointed star polygon. Let $s$ be the perimeter of this star. What is the difference between the maximum and the minimum possible values of $s$.

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Four consecutive sides of an equiangular hexagon have lengths of 1, 9, 16 and 4 units, in that order. What is the absolute difference in the lengths of the two remaining sides?

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Two lines tangents to a circle are drawn from a point $A$. The points of contact $B$ and $C$ divide the circle into arcs with lengths in the ratio $2 : 3$. What is the degree measure of $\angle{BAC}$?

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Triangle $ABC$ has vertices $A = (3,0)$, $B = (0,3)$, and $C$, where $C$ is on the line $x + y = 7$. What is the area of $\triangle ABC$?

Eight semicircles line the inside of a square with side length 2 as shown. What is the radius of the circle tangent to all of these semicircles?


In triangle $ABC$, medians $AD$ and $CE$ intersect at $P$, $PE=1.5$, $PD=2$, and $DE=2.5$. What is the area of $AEDC$?


A circle of radius $2$ is inscribed in a semicircle, as shown. The area inside the semicircle but outside the circle is shaded. What fraction of the semicircle's area is shaded?


Points $A$ and $B$ are on a circle of radius $5$ and $AB=6$. Point $C$ is the midpoint of the minor arc $AB$. What is the length of the line segment $AC$?

A circle of radius $1$ is surrounded by $4$ circles of radius $r$ as shown. What is $r$?


Rhombus $ABCD$ is similar to rhombus $BFDE$. The area of rhombus $ABCD$ is $24$ and $\angle BAD = 60^\circ$. What is the area of rhombus $BFDE$?


In square ABCD, shown here, sector BCD was drawn with a center C and BC = 24 cm. A semicircle with diameter AE is drawn tangent to the sector BCD. If points A, E and D are collinear, what is AE?


In $\triangle{ABC}$, segments AB and AC have each been divided into four congruent segments. We must find the fraction of the triangle that is shaded.


Let point $O$ be the centroid of $\triangle{ABC}$, prove the areas of $\triangle{ABO}, \triangle{BOC}$, and $\triangle{COA}$ are equal.

In $\bigtriangleup ABC$, $AB=BC=29$, and $AC=42$. What is the area of $\bigtriangleup ABC$?

In the diagram, AB is the diameter of a semicircle, D is the midpoint of the semicircle, angle $BAC$ is a right angle, $AC=AB$, and $E$ is the intersection of $AB$ and $CD$. Find the ratio between the areas of the two shaded regions.


What is Heron's formula to calculate a triangle's area given the lengths of three sides?

In equiangular hexagon $ABCDEF$, if $AB+BC=11$ and $FA-CD=3$, compute $BC+DE$.

In regular hexagon $ABCDEF$, points $W$, $X$, $Y$, and $Z$ are chosen on sides $\overline{BC}$, $\overline{CD}$, $\overline{EF}$, and $\overline{FA}$ respectively, so lines $AB$, $ZW$, $YX$, and $ED$ are parallel and equally spaced. What is the ratio of the area of hexagon $WCXYFZ$ to the area of hexagon $ABCDEF$?

Given $\triangle{ABC}$, let $m_a, m_b,$ and $m_c$ be the lengths of three medians. Find its area $S_{\triangle{ABC}}$ with respect to $m_a, m_b,$ and $m_c$.

Let $ABCD$ be a convex quadrilateral and the two diagonals intersect at point $O$. If $AC = 12, BD=5$ and $\angle{AOB}=2\angle{BOC}$, find the area of $S_{ABCD}$

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Sides $\overline{AB}$ and $\overline{AC}$ of equilateral triangle $ABC$ are tangent to a circle at points $B$ and $C$ respectively. What fraction of the area of $\triangle ABC$ lies outside the circle?

Let $ABCDEF$ be an equiangular hexagon such that $AB=6, BC=8, CD=10$, and $DE=12$. Denote by $d$ the diameter of the largest circle that fits inside the hexagon. Find $d^2$.