Hey smart people! Did any of you ever tell me how this works

BlackRider · Post by **BlackRider** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:01 pm

???

I don't get it... I'm about to start cutting out the shapes and playing with construction paper.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Wed May 18, 2005 12:00 am

Look closely at the diagonal, and compare its position against the gridlines on both diagrams.

The two triangular pieces don't have exactly the same slope. Therefore, the line made by the hypotenuse of those triangles isn't quite straight.

Scorch · Post by **Scorch** » Thu May 19, 2005 7:40 am

slope (rise over run)of blue/green is 2/5 slope of red is 3/8.

now for easy comparison the bluegreen is 16/40 while red is 15/40 thus the slopes are not equal and thuis the entire thing is not a triangle.

And yet that alone does not explain where the missing piece came from. all the pieces are the same size in both pictures, However the shape is slightly concave in the top picture, and slightly convex in the bottom picture, thus the "missing" piece is really spread over the length of the diagional in a very thin shape, and is hard to detect. but thats where it went