### Framed

Seven small rectangular pictures have one inch wide frames. The frames are removed and the pictures are fitted together like a jigsaw to make a rectangle of length 12 inches. Find the dimensions of the pictures.

### Tilted Squares

It's easy to work out the areas of most squares that we meet, but what if they were tilted?

### Four or Five

The diagram shows a large rectangle composed of 9 smaller rectangles. If each of these rectangles has integer sides, what could the area of the large rectangle be?

# Guillotine

##### Age 11 to 14 ShortChallenge Level

$ABCD$ is a rectangle. $P$ is the midpoint of $AD$; the length of $BQ$ is one third the length of $BC$. What fraction of the area of the rectangle is the area of the shaded quadrilateral $ABQP$?

If you liked this problem, here is an NRICH task which challenges you to use similar mathematical ideas.

This problem is taken from the UKMT Mathematical Challenges.
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