Problem 51173. Squares inside a square!

Created by Fatima Abdulla HCT2021

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If you have a square has a side (x) that is divided into four squares. Two of those squares carries smaller squares inside them. Each side carries 5 squares. Find the area of one of these small squares. 

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Rafael S.T. Vieira on 5 Nov 2022

Problems that involve geometry should have an auxiliary image. I can draw thousands of sketches that fit your description, yet only one of them is probably what you mean. Human language is imprecise.

Advait on 30 Nov 2024

If anyone else had trouble visualizing the shape:

Imagine the divided square being subdivided into a 5x5 grid. Find the area of one of the boxes in this grid.

Drawing it out let me see it better.

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