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Watch the video BryonyTriangle.mp4 in which Bryony demonstrates how to make a flower from a square of paper.
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.