CAT 2017 Slot 2 QA Q20 Geometry

Question 20 of the Quantitative Ability (QA) section, CAT 2017 Slot 2, with CAT's official answer.

Let P be an interior point of a right-angled isosceles triangle ABC with hypotenuse AB. If the perpendicular distance of P from each of AB, BC, and CA is 4(√2 - 1) cm, then the area, in sq. cm, of the triangle ABC is [TITA]

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Answer: 16 Geometry TITA

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