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The ratio of the perimeters of two similar triangles is 4:7. What is the area of each of these triangles if the sum of their areas is 65cm^2.

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For similar triangles, it is just 4^2 and 7^2

So for the smaller triangle, the area is 16, and for the bigger one, it is 49
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