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Two Shapes & Printer Ink
Age 14 to 16
Challenge Level 
Some solution we were offered cleverly
reasoned that the grid, offered in the Hint as an approximation,
was in fact completely accurate at the pixel level - which for
printer ink is what counts. Sometimes we explore mathematics in
unreal perfection for the sake of the thinking that will draw us
into. Other solutions did this:
"You can split the problem up into combinations of circular shapes, each of which we can find the area of. Doing this I foundthat the star is over 5% larger than the S shape."
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