An equilateral triangle with two perpendiculars to a point that is at the same height as the triangle centre. What is red : yellow?
Tag: triangle
The chessboard hallucination
Behold a 13-14-15 triangle. The 15-long side is dissected into 5 equal parts and the 14-long side is dissected into 7 equal parts. What is the difference between the red and green areas?
The personal letter
Two rectangles share two vertices. What’s the green fraction?
The right position
A triangle, its incircle and a right triangle. The circle centre is shown in blue. Prove that the tangency points and right triangle vertex are collinear.
The Pythagoras bug
Two blue squares and two red right triangles. What are the proportions of the triangle sides?
Author: Matthew Arcus.
The Suresh triplet
Two squares share a vertex. What’s blue : green : orange?
An equilateral triangle and three line segments. What’s the angle α?
The prisoners dilemma
Two prisoners are chained to the walls of a triangular cell. The base is covered with a mirror and a perpendicular wall is separating them. They can each see the opposite corner through a hole. Proof they can see each other through another hole at the base of the perpendicular.
Note that this problem is known as the Blanchet Theorem.
The reflection principle
A green triangle with several line segments. Prove that the red point is its orthocentre.
The dug-in heel
A rectangle containing a right triangle. What’s red : blue?