Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
Find the ratio of the outer shaded area to the inner area for a six pointed star and the eight pointed star.
Visualising. Regular polygons. Pythagoras' theorem. Ratio. Circles. Working systematically. Long problems. Real world. Other polygons. Mathematical reasoning & proof.
Published July 1998.
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