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dayfather
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I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« on: Feb 21st, 2003, 6:30pm » |
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I believe I finally have an answer to the mysterious triangle area problem and I hope that I am right because it is ruining my day  - after looking long and hard I don't believe that the line is of the red and blue triangles are straight - that is they have a slightly different slope - the red triangles slope is 2.5 while the blue triangles slope is 2.6666 - very similar to the naked eye but you cant make a straight line with 2 differing slopes. I didn't figure out the exact area of both triangle but I believe them to be different because of the differences in the slope. Is this correct so that I can go on about with my life?
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roamin63
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Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« Reply #1 on: Jun 28th, 2003, 5:10pm » |
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the 2 shapes are in fact not triangles at all.
Triangles all have 3 straight sides.
these shapes have 4 sides. Bad puzzle.
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Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« Reply #2 on: Jun 30th, 2003, 5:11am » |
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roamin forgot to read the hint at the bottom 
You are correct, dayfather. I don't see why you need a confirmation though. You could very well verify it yourself by calculating the angle, based on the side lengths.
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aero_guy
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Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« Reply #3 on: Jun 30th, 2003, 6:21am » |
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Search functions are very good for checking your answers.
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Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« Reply #4 on: Jan 29th, 2004, 9:12am » |
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Now u can surely sleep peacefully
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Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
« Reply #5 on: Jan 31st, 2004, 2:09pm » |
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You're right. The top picture is not a traingle. What looks like the hypotenuse is really a crooked line. The red (slope 2/5=.4) and blue (slope 3/8=.375) right triangles (and those really are triangles) have different angles. (Enough () for ya?)
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