Something to do while you wait

[talonmas]

http://www.eglobe1.com/word/wp-content/images/photos/funny_maths_04.gif


If you know the answer, please let the others sweat a while before you reveal it ;)

[Ettibby]

uuuuhhh its not showing.... ***

[talonmas]

Ok, I'll include the picture as an attatchment as well for those of you who can't see the link.
Just click the thumbnail:

[Ettibby]

lol im going with tetris!

[talonmas]

gahaha, that was funny answer ^.^ (rofl was too short to answer... 10 chars minimum, ack)

[Ettibby]

ty my friends say i should be a stand up comedian in a stupid voice :D

[Shahared]

The length of b to c is five squares, the length of a to c is 13 squares, so by moving the red triangle to the top, which is three squares tall, in order to keep the height of e to f the same as b to c the orange and green polygons must be positioned in a way that makes the combined area they take up two squares high, and because the aqua colored triangle is only five squares in length, they must also be positioned in a way that makes their length 8 blocks long..since the orange polygon is only two squares long at the bottom but five long at the top and two high and the green polygon is only five squares long at the bottom but 3 at the top with a hight of two squares as well there are not enough squares in their configuration to take up the entire row of thirteen (5+2=7+5=12) and the total length of the combined shapes in the form of a triangle is 13 there must be one square missing from the bottom row of squares...and THAT is where that damn hole came from!

[Ettibby]

you do trigonometry?

[jimmytony1]

The length of b to c is five squares, the length of a to c is 13 squares, so by moving the red triangle to the top, which is three squares tall, in order to keep the height of e to f the same as b to c the orange and green polygons must be positioned in a way that makes the combined area they take up two squares high, and because the aqua colored triangle is only five squares in length, they must also be positioned in a way that makes their length 8 blocks long..since the orange polygon is only two squares long at the bottom but five long at the top and two high and the green polygon is only five squares long at the bottom but 3 at the top with a hight of two squares as well there are not enough squares in their configuration to take up the entire row of thirteen (5+2=7+5=12) and the total length of the combined shapes in the form of a triangle is 13 there must be one square missing from the bottom row of squares...and THAT is where that damn hole came from!

What he said!

[talonmas]

Dunno, but he's wrong. The triangles have the same size in both pictures (just clicking the thumbnail shows a somewhat screwed up picture, try downloading it and open it instead for a better view).

[nickie000]

is any body here or am i to late

[notalther]

i'm here. whatever that means.

[allworrior]

Is it as simple as light green minus yellow/orange? (8-7=1):confused:

[Cladnestina]

The length of b to c is five squares, the length of a to c is 13 squares, so by moving the red triangle to the top, which is three squares tall, in order to keep the height of e to f the same as b to c the orange and green polygons must be positioned in a way that makes the combined area they take up two squares high, and because the aqua colored triangle is only five squares in length, they must also be positioned in a way that makes their length 8 blocks long..since the orange polygon is only two squares long at the bottom but five long at the top and two high and the green polygon is only five squares long at the bottom but 3 at the top with a hight of two squares as well there are not enough squares in their configuration to take up the entire row of thirteen (5+2=7+5=12) and the total length of the combined shapes in the form of a triangle is 13 there must be one square missing from the bottom row of squares...and THAT is where that damn hole came from!

Uhhh.... what the heck did he just say...?

[Cladnestina]

Ummmmm... this is just a random guess, but the red triangle in diagram thing-a-ma-bob B looks smaller than the red triangle in diagram thing-a-ma-bob A?

[talonmas]

A, here's the answer anyway:

Upper picture. Green triangle's slope is 2:4, red triangle's slope is 3:8. Which means they dont have the same slope, thus, the hypotenusus (spellig in english?) (is concave in one picture and convex in the other because they switched places (the A-B line is concave or "caved in" and the D-E line is convex). That little 'bulge' on the hypotenusus is the size of one square! :)

So, it's just an illusion, although very hard to discover with your eye. But easy with math ;)

[allworrior]

Math rocks but I like science better cuz everything around us is science.

[CyanMalicus]

Math rocks but I like science better cuz everything around us is science.

Yeah I agree, and as a Physics Major math totally sucks. If something doesn't fall out of the sky, or run into something else, then I don't give a shyt. Who cares about hypothetical red triangles and stuff like that. If your mom trips on the coffee table and lands on the dog how much force is that? What if she weighs 400lbs? :cool: