{"id":1450,"date":"2020-02-04T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T00:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2024-04-10T12:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T16:45:02","slug":"pinwheel-area-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/02\/04\/pinwheel-area-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinwheel Area Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1448\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pinwheel-Area-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"157\" \/>Here is another engaging problem from <a href=\"https:\/\/mindyourdecisions.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/triangle-area-1984-aime\">Presh Talwalkar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">___________<\/span><strong>Triangle Area 1984 AIME<\/strong><br \/>\nPoint P is in the interior of triangle ABC, and the lines through P are parallel to the sides of ABC. The three triangles shown in the diagram have areas of 4, 9, and 49. What is the area of triangle ABC?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Pinwheel-Area-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Pinwheel-Area-Problem-200116.pdf\">Pinwheel Area Problem<\/a>. for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another engaging problem from Presh Talwalkar. \u201c___________Triangle Area 1984 AIME Point P is in the interior of triangle ABC, and the lines through P are parallel to the sides of ABC. The three triangles shown in the diagram have areas of 4, 9, and 49. What is the area of triangle ABC?\u201d Answer. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[238,40,17],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-aime","tag-analytic-geometry","tag-presh-talwalkar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}