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Stage: 2 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:1

Watch the video below in which Bryony demonstrates how to make a flower from a square of paper. (If you can't see the control bar, zoom out in your browser.)
She then sets you a challenge: what fraction of the original square of paper is the shaded triangle?



 
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Thank you to Bryony Black for giving us permission to use this problem.