An 8x5 rectangle. If the bottom left corner is considered (0, 0), then two lines are drawn within the rectangle, from (0, 4) to (8, 1) and from (1, 5) to (7, 0). The smaller two regions of the four these lines cut the rectangle into are shaded. What is their combined area?

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    8 months ago

    One doesn’t really see this if the image is oriented like that. Rotating your phone or your head so that the vertical axis matches the long diagonal of the ‘kite’ makes this difference more obvious.