{"id":313,"date":"2019-01-01T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/?p=313"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:09:25","slug":"parallelogram-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/01\/parallelogram-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallelogram Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3939\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Puzzle-Fig2-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/>Yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/\">Futility Closet<\/a> puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoint E lies on segment AB, and point C lies on segment FG. The area of parallelogram ABCD is 20 square units. What\u2019s the area of parallelogram EFGD?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Puzzle-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had an alternative solution that I thought was a bit simpler and clearer. See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Parallelogram-Puzzle-160811.pdf\">Parallelogram Puzzle<\/a> for solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another Futility Closet puzzle. \u201cPoint E lies on segment AB, and point C lies on segment FG. The area of parallelogram ABCD is 20 square units. What\u2019s the area of parallelogram EFGD?\u201d Answer. I had an alternative solution that I thought was a bit simpler and clearer. See the Parallelogram Puzzle 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-313","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\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3941,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/3941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}