Distances to Vertices

In the square below, points that are closer to the center than one of the vertices is coloured yellow.  The area of the yellow region is 1/2 of the area of the square.

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Area-Bisecting Lines

Every line going through the center of a square bisects its area. Does every line going through the center of an equilateral triangle bisect its area too?

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Squares in Squares

Let’s draw a smaller square inside a unit square by dividing out a fixed fraction of each side and connecting the dividing point to an opposite angle.

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Two-Colourable Triangles

We start with a polygon and a number of points inside it.  We are asked to draw line segments between the points to subdivide the entire polygon into triangles.

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