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Okay, with your help, I understand it.  Here's what I did:   

 

When you fold the corner up, that leaves          BP  =  8 – 5  =  3  

And when you fold the other corner down         CQ  =  8 – 5  =  3  

So                                                                PQ  =  BC – (BP + CQ) 

                                                                    PQ  =  8 – 6  =  2  

 

Once you have PQ = 2 you can calcularate QR  

                                                         

PQ is a diagonal of a square,               2              2 • sqrt(2)  

so the side of the square is               –––––   =   –––––––––  

                                                       sqrt(2)              2  

 

The 2's cancel out leaving        QR = sqrt(2) 

And PR is the same                PR = sqrt(2)  

 

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Thus the area of triangle PQR is         ––– • sqrt(2) • sqrt(2)  =  1  

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Thanks.

Ron  

 

I had to edit it several times to get stuff to align properly.  What happened to WYSIWYG?  

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Dec 6, 2020

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