Friday Puzzler -- Hexagon
Alex Y
Following is a picture of a regular (all sides and angles equal) hexagon. If the quadrilateral highlighted in blue has an area of 1, what is the area of the hexagon.
No trig or advanced area formulas needed.
Friday Puzzler -- Hexagon
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Ed in Leaside
Bisection makes it obvious.
Re: Friday Puzzler -- Hexagon
#3Correct!
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#4Re: Friday Puzzler -- Hexagon
Larry Barrett
A lot easier than the way I went about it, which involved remembering the relation between the sides of a 30-60-90 triangle and sqrt of 3. This is probably what Alex meant when he said no trig or advanced area formulas involved.