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Five Degrees of Rationality

Give examples of quadrilaterals that each have an area of exactly 8 square units and that have exactly zero, 1, 2, 3 or 4 rational side measure(s). Make sketches and label the side measures and any other significant measures. Show details of your calculations.

source: an extension of a G. Polya poser from the Stanford Math Problem Book.

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