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four equilateral triangles inside a hexagon solution

Solution to the four equilateral triangles inside a hexagon Puzzle

Four Equilateral Triangles Inside a Hexagon

Four equilateral triangles inside a regular hexagon. What fraction is shaded?

Solution by Symmetry

Four equilateral triangles inside a hexagon with labels

The solution to this is perhaps easier to see if some of the lines are removed, as in the above diagram. The angles at the centre of the white regions are all 60 60^\circ. As the hexagon is invariant under rotating by 60 60^\circ, this means that when rotating anticlockwise by 60 60^\circ then OBO B maps to ODO D, OEO E to OGO G, and OIO I to OKO K.

Therefore, rotating triangle OLKO L K by 60 60^\circ clockwise brings OKO K along OIO I, creating a new region OGHJO G H J. Rotating this region by 60 60^\circ clockwise brings OGtoOEO G to O E, creating a new region ODFHOO D F H O. Lastly, rotating this region by 60 60^\circ brings ODO D to OBO B with the final region OACFOO A C F O.

This is 13\frac{1}{3} of the area of the hexagon.