Rectangle Problem

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Jenny drew the rectangle ABCD below that has one side of length 10 and the other 10√3.

She then drew in the line PQ to make a rectangle with C and B.

If the ratios AB : BC and BC : QC are equal, what is the length of BQ?

Solution