A Puzzle

**Thetyim** · 15-07-2006, 11:24 AM

OK. Who can solve this without googling up the answer.

**buadhai** · 15-07-2006, 11:52 AM

Hmmm. The area of the large triangle is 32.5. The areas of the individual colored shapes are 8, 7, 5 and 11.5 which add up to 31.5.

<edit>The line which forms the hypotenuse of the upper triangle is not straight. That's where the additional square unit comes from.</edit>

**Thetyim** · 15-07-2006, 12:53 PM

Blimey, that didn't take you very long.

Correct, the hypotenuse is not straight

**buadhai** · 15-07-2006, 01:16 PM

Well, the solution I posted first was wrong: that the extra square unit was lost in the thickness of the borders between the shapes. But, in looking over the puzzle again I realized that the hypotenuse wasn't straight. Hence the edit.

**Lady Hawk** · 15-07-2006, 02:53 PM

what the !

**qwerty** · 15-07-2006, 08:13 PM

Well, LH, in layman's terms the blue triangle is smaller than the red triangle so, ... well, ... they're different, ... you know?

**noddy** · 28-03-2012, 03:28 PM

ok very good

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