{"id":1855,"date":"2020-11-21T21:53:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T02:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1855"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:10:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:10:51","slug":"square-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/21\/square-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1853\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Square-Deal-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Square-Deal-Fig.jpg 204w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Square-Deal-Fig-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/>Here is a simple <em>Futility Closet<\/em> problem from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis unit square is divided into four regions by a diagonal and a line that connects a vertex to the midpoint of an opposite side. What are the areas of the four regions?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Square-Deal-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Square-Deal-150619.pdf\">Square Deal<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a simple Futility Closet problem from 2014. \u201cThis unit square is divided into four regions by a diagonal and a line that connects a vertex to the midpoint of an opposite side. What are the areas of the four regions?\u201d Answer. See the Square Deal for solutions.<\/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":[16,13],"class_list":["post-1855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-futility-closet","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855","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=1855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1855\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}