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7-122.

Two congruent overlapping squares are shown at right. If a point inside the figure is chosen at random, what is the probability that it will not be in the shaded region?

What fraction of a square does the shaded portion represent?
What fraction of the entire figure does it represent?
Try and visualize more squares within the large triangles, or draw it out on paper.H