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2The shape shown is made up of three similar right-angled triangles.22The smallest triangle has two sides of side-length 2, as shown.What is the area of the shape?1412 + 12V22824 + 20V56Erase

2The shape shown is made up of three similar right-angled triangles.22The smallest-example-1

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The triangles are similar. The smaller is isosceles, so the 3 of them are as well.

Let's Start by finding the hypotenuse of the smaller one:

a² = 2

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