{"id":4436,"date":"2025-06-21T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2025-06-21T10:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T14:30:39","slug":"two-squares-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/06\/21\/two-squares-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Squares Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4433\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Two-Squares-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Two-Squares-Puzzle-Fig2.jpg 408w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Two-Squares-Puzzle-Fig2-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/>This is another nice problem from the 2025 Math Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two squares in the diagram have areas 9 and 16 and form two of the sides of a triangle with area 3.\u00a0 What is the area <em>x<\/em> of the blue triangle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Again, the result must be a number of a day in a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Two-Squares-Puzzle-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Two-Squares-Puzzle-250113.pdf\">Two Squares Puzzle<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another nice problem from the 2025 Math Calendar. \u201cThe two squares in the diagram have areas 9 and 16 and form two of the sides of a triangle with area 3.\u00a0 What is the area x of the blue triangle?\u201d Again, the result must be a number of a day in a month. [&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":[183,13],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-math-calendar","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","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=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4439,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/4439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}