Puzzle time - Find the angle
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That's about 115 degrees.
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The problem looks underspecified. You'd need to give us some other angles or lengths or areas or whatnot. Are the top left and top right angles 90 degrees? Are the shaded triangles supposed to have the same angles? Are the side length of the shaded triangles all the same, respectively?
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The problem looks underspecified. You'd need to give us some other angles or lengths or areas or whatnot. Are the top left and top right angles 90 degrees? Are the shaded triangles supposed to have the same angles? Are the side length of the shaded triangles all the same, respectively?
@Klaus said in Puzzle time - Find the angle:
The problem looks underspecified. You'd need to give us some other angles or lengths or areas or whatnot. Are the top left and top right angles 90 degrees? Are the shaded triangles supposed to have the same angles? Are the side length of the shaded triangles all the same, respectively?
I agree. Without the little "square" to indicate a 90 degree angle and other numbers, it is impossible to solve (at least I think so!!! LOL)
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@jon-nyc said in Puzzle time - Find the angle:
Sorry - the two shaded triangles are equilateral.
But that alone is not enough. For instance, I could shrink one of the triangles by 50% and change the angle. You'd need something else like "the area of the bigger one is twice the area of the smaller".
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Well, I assume if I set up a formula for the angle given side length a and b for the triangles, then simplify using textbook identities for trigonometric functions, the a's and b's will magically cancel each other all out and I'll just get the 120 degrees.
There should be a tool online that turns geometric constructions into algebraic equations. There's pizza in the oven, so I can't be bothered to do that by hand right now
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I'm going with 120 degrees.
My reasoning is that Klaus knows about this stuff.
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Sorry, I should probably have put that in a spoiler
