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        riddles >> easy >> I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area 
        
(Message started by: dayfather on Feb 21^st, 2003, 6:28pm)

Title: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
Post by dayfather on Feb 21^st, 2003, 6:28pm

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?

Brian Amadon
Seattle WA

Title: Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
Post by Icarus on Feb 22^nd, 2003, 7:24am

The thread for this puzzle is here (http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1033223667). You can check your understanding against the comments there!

Title: Re: I believe I have an answer to Mysterious Area
Post by Chronos on Feb 24^th, 2003, 4:48pm

More to the point, if the line isn't straight, then neither of the big figures is really a triangle, and the question is lying.