The shaded fraction is 1/5. The parallel lines connecting vertices and opposite midpoints are perpendicular, dividing the square into five congruent smaller squares by geometric dissection, making the central shaded square exactly one-fifth of the total area. Class 9 Maths Ganita ...
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Method 1: 180° edge rotations place all four interior angles around each shared vertex, summing to 360° without gaps or overlaps. Methods 2 and 3: Parallelograms tile the plane, so positioning copies preserves edge congruences and seamlessly tiles the entire ...
(i) If a segment joining two sides is parallel to the third side and half its length, it connects their midpoints. (ii) “If PQ ∥ BC, then Q is the midpoint of AC”; represented as: If (P MID) and (PRLL), ...
For n = 5, sum is 540°; for n = 6, 720°; for n = 7, 900°. General formula: (n – 2) × 180°. Proof: Drawing all diagonals from a single vertex divides the n-gon into n – 2 triangles, ...
(i) A diagonal connects two non-adjacent vertices. Diagonals: 3-gon: 0; 4-gon: 2; 5-gon: 5; 6-gon: 9; 7-gon: 14; 8-gon: 20. (ii) Increasing sides by 1 adds n – 1 diagonals. Formula: n(n – 3)/2, since each of the n vertices ...