{"id":3092,"date":"2023-02-25T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T12:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=3092"},"modified":"2024-04-05T16:51:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T20:51:42","slug":"covering-rectangle-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/25\/covering-rectangle-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering Rectangle Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3090\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Covering-Rectangle-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Covering-Rectangle-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg 401w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Covering-Rectangle-Puzzle-Fig2-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This is a nice puzzle from the Maths Masters team, Burkard Polster (aka Mathologer) and Marty Ross as part of their \u201cSummer Quizzes\u201d offerings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the picture does the green rectangle cover more or less than half of the [congruent] red rectangle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is evident from the problem solution that the two rectangles are the same, so I made it explicit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Covering-Rectangle-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Covering-Rectangle-Puzzle-220130.pdf\">Covering Rectangle Puzzle<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice puzzle from the Maths Masters team, Burkard Polster (aka Mathologer) and Marty Ross as part of their \u201cSummer Quizzes\u201d offerings. \u201cIn the picture does the green rectangle cover more or less than half of the [congruent] red rectangle?\u201d It is evident from the problem solution that the two rectangles are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[227,13],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-mathologer","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092","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=3092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3553,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3092\/revisions\/3553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}