Two blue squares and two red right triangles. What are the proportions of the triangle sides?
Author: Matthew Arcus.
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Solution
The triangle proportions are 3 : 4 : 5.
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The Pythagoras bug
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Solutiion of the original problem
Corrections:
In the figure |FG| has to be replaced by |AG|
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Note that the general solution proves the theorem of Pythagoras, with an interesting link to the generation of Pythagorean triples, and in fact the problem is closely modelled on the recent proof of that theorem by Jackson and Johnson.