Problem

Source: (2022-) 2023 XVI 16th Dürer Math Competition Finals Day 2 E+5

Tags: geometry



King Minos divided his rectangular island of Crete between his 3 sons as follows: he built a wall along one diagonal of the island and gave one half of the island to his eldest son. Then, in the remaining triangular area, from the right-angled vertex he built a wall perpendicular to the other wall. Of the two areas thus obtained, the larger was given to the middle son and the smaller to the youngest. Each of the three sons had the largest possible square palace built on his own land. How many times is the area of the eldest son’s palace larger than the area of the youngest son’s palace if the side lengths of the island are $30$ m and $210$ m?