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If I have these two shapes:

yellow square, red equilateral triangle


and I overlap them a bit, I get this:

 

overlapped so that triangle is half covered by square

 


The overlapped part looks like this:

orange right angled triangle shape of overlap

 

Can you match these pairs of shapes with the shape you would get if you overlapped them?

 

pairs of shapes to match with shapes of overlap

 

What other interesting overlap shapes can you make using a square, a rectangle and an equilateral triangle?