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ACT Math: Plane Geometry Drill 5, Problem 2. What is the area of the shaded sections?

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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Equilateral Triangles. It's always the

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same thing with them. This figure is made up of two equilateral

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triangles, one rotated 60° about the center of the other, each with side lengths of 6.

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Find the area of the shaded sections.

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And here are your potential answers...

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At first, we may only see 6 itty-bitty equilateral triangles... but on second glance, we see

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that there are, in fact, 2 big honkin' equilateral triangles here.

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So we know the side length of the biggies...

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and no matter which way we look at it, each side of the big triangles is cleanly cut into

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thirds. Since the big sides all measure 6 units, each

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third measures 2 units. These thirds make up the sides of the smaller triangles, which

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are equilateral

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We have the base -- 2 -- but we still need to find the height.

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To do that, we split the small triangle in half and use the Pythagorean theorem... a

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squared plus b squared equals c squared... to solve for the height. It looks something

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like this: We add 1 squared plus x squared to equal 2

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squared, and by solving for x, we get the square root of three.

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The area of a triangle is 1/2 times the base times the height 2 times the

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square root of three times one half... we get square root of three as the area of the

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small triangle. Since there

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are six small triangles, we have to multiply the square root of three by six and that gives us 6 root three.

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The correct answer is D.

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