It's C because for the perpendicular line, you need to construct cross points to draw it through.
- you start by drawing a random circle with F as the center, just as long as it intersects line DE
- Then you use the intersections of that circle to draw new circles starting at F.
- These new circles intersect at F and another point below DE.
- You draw the perpendicular line through F and the other point.
Assuming no cubes are hidden from view, the base view (as if you're looking from underneath the figure) would have a 2 x 2 square of cubes, plus one at the top. This means that your correct choice would be the one I've attached.
Answer:
A. 
Step-by-step explanation:
So to get the area of a square, we need to find the length of one side.
We know the length of the larger square is a, so the area of the larger cube is 
We can find the length of a side of the smaller square by using pythagoreans theorem to find the hypotenuse of the triangle formed in the bottom left corner. The length of one side along the x axis is a - b, and the length of the other side, along the y-axis, is b.
We can plug it into pythagoreans theorem to get
(C represents the length of one side of the smaller square, and the hypotenuse of the triangle)

The area of the smaller triangle is C squared to the area of the smaller triangle is

To get the ratio of the smaller square in comparison to the larger square we divide the area of the smaller square by the area of the larger square.
So the ratio should be
