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Advent calendar 2022
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One of the vertices of a rectangle is at the point \((9, 0)\). The \(x\)-axis and \(y\)-axis are both lines of symmetry of the rectangle.
What is the area of the rectangle?
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The only way this is possible is if the rectangle is this square:
The area of this square is
162
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