{"id":536,"date":"2019-01-20T16:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T21:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=536"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T16:34:12","slug":"hexagon-rectangle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/20\/hexagon-rectangle-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Hexagon-Rectangle Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3929\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hexagon-Rectangle-Prob-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hexagon-Rectangle-Prob-Fig2.jpg 397w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hexagon-Rectangle-Prob-Fig2-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>This is another interesting problem from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cshearer41\">Catriona Shearer<\/a>. She shows the following figure with a regular hexagon and rectangle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe area of the regular hexagon is 30. What\u2019s the area of the rectangle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Hexagon-Rectangle-Prob-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hexagon-Rectangle-Problem-190120.pdf\">Hexagon-Rectangle Problem<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is another interesting problem from Catriona Shearer. She shows the following figure with a regular hexagon and rectangle. \u201cThe area of the regular hexagon is 30. What\u2019s the area of the rectangle?\u201d Answer. See the Hexagon-Rectangle Problem for a solution.<\/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":[42,141,13,41],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-catriona-agg","tag-george-polya","tag-plane-geometry","tag-trigonometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}