The figure below shows an equilateral triangle, a rhombus with a angle, and a regular hexagon, each of them containing some mutually tangent congruent disks. Let and respectively, denote the ratio in each case of the total area of the disks to the area of the enclosing polygon. Which of the following is true?

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