Diagonal Side

Can you work out the area of a square drawn on a diagonal?
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The diagonal of a unit square is used as one of the sides of a new square.

What is the area of this new square?

(A unit square is a square whose sides all have length 1 unit, and so its area is 1 square unit)

This problem is taken from the World Mathematics Championships