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Trisecting a Triangle

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A puzzle a freind gave me awhile ago I thought was cool. For an arbitrary triangle ABC, connect each vertex to a corresponding trisection on the opposite side of the triangle. These three lines make a smaller triangle inside the larger one. What is the ratio of areas between the two triangles. SPOILERS: The answer is 7.