#Riddle from university entrance test practice

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bright trout
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The yellow area is 27, the green area is 35 and the red area is 40. What is the blue area?

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idle zodiac
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call other triangles x y z and w to the blue

bright trout
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@idle zodiac How did you get that result? I don't have the answers unfortunately

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But it gives an integer with x = 27 and y = 40 so I guess it's right

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Thanks for your time btw

idle zodiac
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you just name the sides

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lets go with red triangle for example

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I will say a is the short side of the rectangle which is base of the red triangle.

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I will say b to the height of that red triangle

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so a*b/2 = 27 so b = 54/a

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you keep naming the sides like this and you'll have few equations

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I can send you a video about t

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here

bright trout
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Thank you

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I just solved it by taking the factors of the sides, got ab = 180 and found the inner triangle (assuming sides are integers)

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