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Main Boards => VGMaps Social Board => Topic started by: RT 55J on February 19, 2007, 06:22:16 pm

Title: I feel like confusing all of you.
Post by: RT 55J on February 19, 2007, 06:22:16 pm
User posted image

http://members.cox.net/xlegionx/Triangle%20Puzzle.gif



Figure it out and you get a cookie.

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Title: RE: I feel like confusing all of you.
Post by: Revned on February 19, 2007, 07:01:41 pm
Ah, that's an easy one. The red and turquoise triangles don't have the same slopes, so the large "triangle" isn't really a triangle.
Title: RE: I feel like confusing all of you.
Post by: JonLeung on February 19, 2007, 08:18:18 pm
The "whole triangle" looks like it has a height of 5 units in length and a base of 13 units in length.  5 x 13 divided by 2 should give us the area, 32.5 square units.



But the pieces are:

12 units = red

08 units = green

07 units = yellow

05 units = turquoise

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32 units



I'm guessing that the illusion of giving and taking a half square unit both ways is what causes a whole square to appear to be missing.  Or something.



Anyway, did you give Revned his cookie yet?  What kind of cookie is it?