Find the total area of the two red triangles by two different methods if ACD and BCE are straight lines .
What are the lengths PC and CQ?
The triangles are re-drawn with PC = x cm and CQ = y cm keeping the total area the same and keeping the distances between the green parallel lines as 3 cm and BD = 4 cm.
What is the value of y if x = 3 cm?
What other values can x and y take if the area is always the same?
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This activity is adapted from the NRICH task Kissing Triangles with permission of the University of Cambridge. All rights reserved.
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