+4609 The exact amount of fencing that enclosed the four congruent equilateral triangular corrals shown here is reused to form one large equilateral triangular corral. What is the ratio of the total area of the four small corrals to the area of the new large corral? Express your answer as a common fraction.
+128405 We have 12 equal sides in the 4 triangles
Let s = the side of each
The total area is 4 (1/2)(s^2)√3/2 = √3s^2
So....in a larger equilateral triangle.....each side will be 12s/3 = 4s
So....the area of the largwer equilateral triangle =
(1/2) (4s)^2 √3/2 = 16s^2√3/4 = 4√3s^2
So....the desired ratio is √3s^2 / [ 4√3 s^2 ] = 1 / 4
