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Oooh... *evil*. No hints here yet.
[edit: 6:17 EDT] Ooh, wait, one hint: the central angles are not all equal!

[edit: 9:53 EDT]
Sum of digits in answer: 12.
Remember your triangle formulas, and there are fewer unknowns than you think.

i got it, not that i expect a prize. i'm just proud. here's a hint. it's symmetrical

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remember to round UP and not down.

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Wow. That was a fun one. It was just the same kind of triangle geometry over and over again. I'm not sure I had to calculate everything I did, but I'm fairly sure I got the right answer (I started in the opposite corner from the area of interest for some strange reason). Too bad my internet was down when it came out; I'm pretty sure I'm not in the top 250. Unless fewer than 250 people get it right...

A second way to check your answer - the drawing is very accurate (but your screen might not be).

the prizes are out, the answer is 921, its phytagoras + some variables replacement

somebody did post the answer, but I think mod deleted the post

Here's the really really long solution. (I don't *think* this will stretch the board - the width is 1024 now right? - but feel free to change these into links instead, if that'd still allow the images to be accessed)







And this was the way I checked my answer (and what I was talking about as a second way to check, since I'd already posted the sum-of-digits thing as a first check):


[edit, 10:46 PM] skipped a paragraph by accident, now fixed

sorry for not able to draw as nice as you

Notice the area marked with X ? its because they have same "h" which is s/2 (s is the side), and the same area (s*s/7) (explanation : the square area divided by 7 same area).

X = (s*s/7) / (0.5*s/2)

After that we work with AI, trapezoid (border in blue).
AI area = the small triangle area (with border "a") + the 1/7 farm area.
(z+s/2)*s/2*0.5 = s*s/7 + x-s/2 * s/2 * 0.5

replace the variables and we obtain z

then we can obtain "b" by applying the phytagoras theorem to the triangle with green line.

c can be obtained using the phytagoras theorem as well.

I think this way is simpler, since phytagoras is thing that almost remembered by everyone, and I already forget law of cosine since that was like 6 years ago for me