What do your students think? Can they generalize it?
What is the overlapped area?
As the red square is rotated around point O, what is the area of the overlap with the yellow square? #geomchat
— David Wees (@davidwees)
Friday, May 29, 2015
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We tweeted this in response:
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Very nice.
DeleteThe problem reminds me of another:
Suppose a rectangular cake has a single rectangular piece removed. Divide the remaining cake into two equal pieces with a single cut.
(Cutting the cake "horizontally" through the middle gives one solution; but there is another!)
http://i.imgur.com/kESHfgf.jpg