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Tagged with:    [Post New]posted on 4 Jun 2007 17:05:58 IST    
Consider the figures below. Both triangular figures have been built up from the same four parts. The parts with the same color have exactly the same shape and size! They are only moved around, which resulted in an appearing area in the lower figure, marked with a question mark ('?').

Can this be true?

The Question: Where does the '?' hole come from?
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dreamiit
dreamiit is offline comment by dreamiit    (posted on 4 Jun 2007 17:17:39 IST)
no pic
pirate1_from_jee
pirate1_from_jee is offline comment by pirate1_from_jee    (posted on 4 Jun 2007 17:21:17 IST)
No pic at all.
bunnyaneja
bunnyaneja is offline comment by bunnyaneja    (posted on 6 Jun 2007 13:29:08 IST)
I can see the pic but can't understand what the hell is happening here!!!
bunnyaneja
bunnyaneja is offline comment by bunnyaneja    (posted on 6 Jun 2007 13:40:35 IST)
K I've found it.
Everything here seems nicely pleased, but do note the diagonals or the hypotenuses of the respective triangles...
They are not exactly the same...
The slope of blue triangle's hypotenuse is 3/8 while that of red one is 2/5. And here is where all the folly is....
In the second triangle extra space is being generated by the arrangement of higher slope below lower one...
bunnyaneja
bunnyaneja is offline comment by bunnyaneja    (posted on 6 Jun 2007 13:41:30 IST)
Sorry not pleased but placed...
sankydreams
sankydreams is offline comment by sankydreams    (posted on 6 Jun 2007 16:04:21 IST)
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