What's the radius?
I have a book of puzzles from 1972 with the pretentious title, "Games for the Superintelligent" by James Fixx. One puzzle had me thinking for a couple of days:
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I have a book of puzzles from 1972 with the pretentious title, "Games for the Superintelligent" by James Fixx. One puzzle had me thinking for a couple of days:
I drew it out, thought about different ways of attacking it, and eventually gave up and looked up the answer in the back of the book.
See if you can do better than me and figure out the answer on your own!
geometry
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I have a book of puzzles from 1972 with the pretentious title, "Games for the Superintelligent" by James Fixx. One puzzle had me thinking for a couple of days:
I drew it out, thought about different ways of attacking it, and eventually gave up and looked up the answer in the back of the book.
See if you can do better than me and figure out the answer on your own!
geometry
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I have a book of puzzles from 1972 with the pretentious title, "Games for the Superintelligent" by James Fixx. One puzzle had me thinking for a couple of days:
I drew it out, thought about different ways of attacking it, and eventually gave up and looked up the answer in the back of the book.
See if you can do better than me and figure out the answer on your own!
geometry
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Is it:
8 inches. Because the rectangle with the $8^"$ marked other diagonal is the radius, and this is also $8^"$ long.
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Is it:
8 inches. Because the rectangle with the $8^"$ marked other diagonal is the radius, and this is also $8^"$ long.
answered 55 mins ago
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Is it:
8 inches. Because the rectangle with the $8^"$ marked other diagonal is the radius, and this is also $8^"$ long.
answered 55 mins ago
JonMark Perry
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Is it:
8 inches. Because the rectangle with the $8^"$ marked other diagonal is the radius, and this is also $8^"$ long.
answered 55 mins ago
JonMark Perry
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Is it:
8 inches. Because the rectangle with the $8^"$ marked other diagonal is the radius, and this is also $8^"$ long.
answered 55 mins ago
JonMark Perry
17.1k63381
answered 55 mins ago
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