There are a few ways to see that the ratio is 1:1, including a couple of good ways in the above posts. You could also do as follows:
-draw a vertical line from the top corner of the white triangle to the bottom of the rectangle. This divides the large rectangle into two smaller rectangles, and each is clearly half-white, half-shaded, since the edge of the white triangle is a diagonal of each smaller rectangle.
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