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Two semicircles and one circle were drawn on the sides of a right triangle. The circle whose centre is in the midpoint of the hypothenuse actually goes through the right angle corner – this is a general fact, but you don’t need to prove it here. If the two shorter sides of the triangle are 3 and 4, what is the total area of the red region?

The lengths of three sides of a right triangle are all integer numbers.

a) Show that one of them is divisible by 3.

b*) Show that one of them is divisible by 5.

A segment AB is a base of an isosceles triangle ABC. A line perpendicular to the segment AC was drawn through point A – this line crosses an extension of the segment BC at point D. There is also a point E somewhere, such that angles ECB and EBA are both right. Point F is on the extension of the segment AB, such that B is between A and F. We also know that BF=AD. Show that ED=EF.

In a country far far away, there are only two types of coins: 1 crown and 3 crowns coins. Molly had a bag with only 3 crown coins in it. She used some of these coins to buy herself hat and she got one 1 crown coin back. The next day, all of her friends were jealous of her hat, so she decided to buy identical hats for them. She again only had 3 crown coins in her purse, and she used them to pay for 7 hats. Show that she got a single 1 crown coin back.