standard_description: Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations:
- Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length.
- Angles are taken to angles of the same measure.
- Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
problem_activity: Task
A square is inscribed in a circle which is inscribed in a square as shown below. Note that the vertices of the inner square meet the midpoints of the outer square's sides.
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Consider the area of the region left by removing the interior of the small square from the interior of the big square. Is the area of the blue region more or less than $\frac12$ of that?


aligns: no