SOLUTION: The large square has a Side length Of 8cm. What is the area of the smaller square?https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/742028999940767776/838937444891230248/unknown.png

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Question 1179698: The large square has a Side length Of
8cm. What is the area of the smaller
square?https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/742028999940767776/838937444891230248/unknown.png

Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The large square has a side length of :

What is the area of the smaller square?
if the side of the smaller square is

smaller square is insciebed in a circle whose diameter is same length as a side of the large square, and the diagonal of the smaller square
so,
use Pythagorean theorem to calculate




....we can stop here, because
it is the area:


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