{"id":1892,"date":"2020-12-26T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2024-04-08T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T14:50:44","slug":"shy-angle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/26\/shy-angle-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Shy Angle Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1890\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shy-Angle-Prob-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shy-Angle-Prob-Fig2.jpg 515w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shy-Angle-Prob-Fig2-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>Here is yet another problem from <a href=\"https:\/\/mindyourdecisions.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/24\/solve-for-the-angle-viral-puzzle\/\">Presh Talwalkar<\/a>. This one is rather elegant in its simplicity of statement and answer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u201cSolve For The Angle \u2013 Viral Puzzle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thank Barry and also Akshay Dhivare from India for suggesting this problem!\u00a0 This puzzle is popular on social media. What is the measure of the angle denoted by a \u201c?\u201d in the following diagram? You have to solve it using elementary geometry (no trigonometry or other methods).\u00a0 It\u2019s harder than it looks.\u00a0 I admit I did not solve it. Can you figure it out?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Shy-Angle-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shy-Angle-Problem-200206.pdf\">Shy Angle Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is yet another problem from Presh Talwalkar. This one is rather elegant in its simplicity of statement and answer. \u201cSolve For The Angle \u2013 Viral Puzzle I thank Barry and also Akshay Dhivare from India for suggesting this problem!\u00a0 This puzzle is popular on social media. What is the measure of the angle denoted [&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":[13,17],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-plane-geometry","tag-presh-talwalkar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","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=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3712,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/3712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}