Tuesday, November 05, 2013

A puzzle of sorts

6 comments:

Dad said...

Sent my answer to Luke. Maybe he'll give me a car.

Luke Murphy said...

Howzabout a 2006 Chevy Aveo with no AC and no cruise control? Gorgeous bright orange color, though.

Mom said...

I figured it out! But I won't take the car, thank you very much . . .

Caleb said...

"Of sorts" indeed. It lies to us.

Luke Murphy said...

Well, not really. All that it says is that the 4 sub-shapes are the same in both the top and bottom quadrilaterals, which is true. Your eyes are the liars here, since they're the ones telling you that the two quadrilaterals are triangles. Stupid eyes.

Mom said...

I believed my lying eyes for a couple of hours and could NOT figure out why neither figure had the area that a triangle with those dimensions should have, not to mention that they had two different areas. I kept re-checking my arithmetic until eventually, light dawned.