so anyway let me tell you the answer.. i know you have realized it too...
In the Magic Triangle, we should have thought that triangles 2 and 4 are similar triangles as they both lie in the same slope with their hypotenuses and have right angles in one of their vertices ... and same thing with triangles 1 and 3.
Remember that similar triangles have properties in PROPORTIONALITY.
Now to determine if these triangles were indeed SIMILAR...
we use the formula
a/b = a'/b' (altitudes/bases)
by substituting we have
8/5 = 5/3 which is definitely incorrect
if we let one dimension be unknown, like the first altitude 8 be x we have
x/5 = 5/3 then eventually we will have
x = 25/3
so x should be 8.33 to make these triangles SIMILAR... instead of 8.
The measurements in The Magic Triangle are deceptive... so before calculating everything what it asks... better check the measurements first.
Right?
The same goes with The Magic Rectangle.
The triangles involved there
were triangles CFH as similar to CDB
or triangles BAC as similar to BEG.
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well thanx 😄...but speaking of math skills, i've got a question for ya. Being that your older then me, and you've already been through college, do you think i could handle having a math major in college? you see, i'm trying to decide whether i want to teach elementry or secondary education...but if i do secondary, i have to major in what i want to teach, which would prolly be math....any suggestions?
really? i didn't know that...cuz i'm really torn on what to do. Originally i was planning on doing elementary ed....but then i started to wonder why i wasn't considering my other option, secondary....then other ppl began to influence me, telling me they thought i would make a good high school teacher....so now i'm kinda stuck, not really sure what my major is gunna be...all i know is that it'll be some type of education, and that i'm prolly gunna take calculus next year...
I don't have new Magic Boxes ... but I have some of problems 😄
1. If jackfruits are twice as expensive as watermelons, and watermelon is one-third as expensive as pineapples. What is the ratio of the price of one jackfruit to one pineapple?
2. Forrest Gump walks down the road for 30 minutes at a rate of 3 mph. He waits 10 minutes for a bus, which brings his back to his staring point at 4:25. If he began his walk at 3:35 the same afternoon, what was the average speed on the bus?
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