Big Thanks go out to Bilbao for submitting this one!
The seven inner triangles in the picture are isosceles. The outer big triangle is also isosceles.
What is the value of each of the angles in the picture?
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Earlier puzzles from Bilbao:
The 12 dots
The Unreadable Account
3 Men by the Seaside
My first attempt, working from right to left, yielded a big fat zero for the angle at the tip of the large isosceles triangle. Either my math is wrong, or this is a trick.
Cool puzzle;
You got 10 vars and 3 equations, so its solvable by algebra using geometry knowledge:
Here are the equations:
1)2a+y= 180
2)2b +x = 180
3)2c +z = 180
4)2d +v = 180
5)2e +w = 180
6)y+b=180
7)a+x+c=180
8)b+z+d= 180
9)c+v+e=180
10)d+w= e
The solution is 180/11= 16,36363636363636363636….. degrees, cool!
Big triangle:12/84/84
Small triangles: 156/12/12; 132/24/24; 108/36/36 etc
From left to right, the isosceles triangles are:
12-12-156
24-24-132
36-36-108
48-48-84
60-60-60
72-72-36
84-84-12
Thanks, Bilbao, for letting me know that I still remember my high school geometry.
Should work for starting angle of 12 degrees.
From left to right, the angles of the 7 triangles are:
12,12,156
24,24,132
36,36,108
48,48,84
60,60,60 (still isosceles!)
72,72,36
84,84,12
This will work for any starting triangle whose side:base ratio is 4.78339
My answer was for the smallest angle or “a” because you can derivate the others form the equations and I am too lazy but here its the relantionship, b=2a; c=3a; d= 4a; e= 5a, and you can see how you get the suplementary angles x,y,v,w similarly, cool.
Ok, I did not counted all the triangles cool!!!!!, I missed two triangles, big difference
Very good, Shawn, Bobo The Bear, and Bizarette18 have the answers up.
Here’s a diagram Bilbao sent along to help illustrate,
http://www.smart-kit.com/wp-co.....lution.jpg
cool !
From right to left the angles would be 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70…. nice puzzle… some more please…