Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
What is the area of the pentagon?
This tells you the area of the square and so the length of its sides.
Mixed triangles. Pythagoras' theorem. Invariance properties. Compound transformations. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Squares. Area. Surds. Long problems. Powers & roots.
Published January 2003.
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