{"id":786,"date":"2019-03-23T21:23:02","date_gmt":"2019-03-24T01:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=786"},"modified":"2024-04-14T11:30:05","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T15:30:05","slug":"parallelogram-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/03\/23\/parallelogram-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallelogram Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3872\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Prob-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Prob-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Prob-Fig2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Prob-Fig2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cshearer41\">Catriona Shearer<\/a> has come up with another challenging but elegant geometric problem. In some ways, it is similar to the famous Russian Coffin Problems that have an obvious solution\u2014once you see it\u2014but initially seem impenetrable. I really marvel at Catriona Shearer\u2019s ability to come up with these problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the area of the parallelogram?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Parallelogram-Prob-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Parallelogram-Prob-181023.pdf\">Parallelogram Problem<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catriona Shearer has come up with another challenging but elegant geometric problem. In some ways, it is similar to the famous Russian Coffin Problems that have an obvious solution\u2014once you see it\u2014but initially seem impenetrable. I really marvel at Catriona Shearer\u2019s ability to come up with these problems. \u201cWhat\u2019s the area of the parallelogram?\u201d Answer. [&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":[42,13],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-catriona-agg","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","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=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3873,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions\/3873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}