The drawing below shows three squares joined at their vertices to a form a right triangle - What is the area of the shaded square?

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Answer 1 · 2018-05-10T21:19:20

This is the basis for Pythagoras

#3529color(white)(.) m^2#

Area of the shaded part is #35^2+48^2 = 3529#

But this is area so we have #3529color(white)(.) m^2#

Answer 2 · 2018-05-10T21:22:26

3529 #m^2#

The top edge of the shaded square is the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle with sides 48 m and 35 m.

#48^2+35^2=3529#

This is the area of the shaded square.