{"id":2950,"date":"2022-11-12T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T12:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=2950"},"modified":"2024-04-06T09:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T13:49:38","slug":"triangle-stripes-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2022\/11\/12\/triangle-stripes-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Triangle Stripes Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"text-indent: 0in;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2948\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Triangle-Stripes-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Triangle-Stripes-Fig2.jpg 492w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Triangle-Stripes-Fig2-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>This is a fairly straight-forward problem from Presh Talwalkar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"text-indent: 0in;\">\u201cA triangle is divided by 8 parallel lines that are equally spaced, as shown below. Starting from the top small triangle, color each alternate stripe in blue and color the remaining stripes in red. If the blue stripes have a total area of 145, what is the total area of the red stripes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Triangle-Stripes-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Jims\" style=\"text-indent: 0in;\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Triangle-Stripes-Problem-221111.pdf\">Triangle Stripes Problem<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fairly straight-forward problem from Presh Talwalkar. \u201cA triangle is divided by 8 parallel lines that are equally spaced, as shown below. Starting from the top small triangle, color each alternate stripe in blue and color the remaining stripes in red. If the blue stripes have a total area of 145, what is [&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-2950","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\/2950","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=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3585,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}