### At a Glance

The area of a regular pentagon looks about twice as a big as the pentangle star drawn within it. Is it?

### Six Discs

Six circular discs are packed in different-shaped boxes so that the discs touch their neighbours and the sides of the box. Can you put the boxes in order according to the areas of their bases?

### Equilateral Areas

ABC and DEF are equilateral triangles of side 3 and 4 respectively. Construct an equilateral triangle whose area is the sum of the area of ABC and DEF.

# Rhombus in Rectangle

##### Age 14 to 16 Challenge Level:

Take any rectangle $ABCD$ such that $AB > BC$. The point $P$ is on $AB$ and $Q$ is on $CD$. Show that there is exactly one position of $P$ and $Q$ such that $APCQ$ is a rhombus.

Show that if the rectangle has the proportions of A4 paper ($AB=BC$ $\sqrt 2$) then the ratio of the areas of the rhombus and the rectangle is $3:4$.

Show also that, by choosing a suitable rectangle, the ratio of the area of the rhombus to the area of the rectangle can take any value strictly between $\frac{1}{2}$ and $1$.