The great mystery thread - post yours here!

**Blue_Frog** · 06-07-2007, 11:05 PM

Schweet! I'm surprised my brain is working at all tonite!

Now, the only mystery I can think of offhand is where exactly I put my other baseball hat, but i'm not sure anyone can help me with that one. Oh wait, mystery solved -- I blame the ferret

OK, after wracking my brains, heres the best I can come up with at this time of nite ...

A triangle is made up of 3 sides, and 3 angles -- the angles total 180°. This means that if you have, lets say, a right angle triangle, one angle would equal 45° , but the other 2 would not be.

An Equilateral Triangle is a triangle where all three sides are the same length. This means that the angles will also be equal – all 60° - making the triangle equiangular as well.

What is one example of a situation where you could have an Equilateral triangle made up of 3-right (45°) angles?

edit: should not be allowed to try and think after midnight.

**Lady's Human** · 06-07-2007, 11:14 PM

A right angle is 90 degrees, not 45.

As three 90 degree angles would be a 270 degree triangle, it is mathematically impossible.

**JenBKR** · 06-08-2007, 07:37 AM

math

**Blue_Frog** · 06-08-2007, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

A right angle is 90 degrees, not 45.

As three 90 degree angles would be a 270 degree triangle, it is mathematically impossible.

See what happens when I try to think at Midnight?

I break both my own brain, and the brains of the people around me *lol*

--- Sorry. So, in what situation could you have a triangle made up of 3 x 90degree angles?

**Lady's Human** · 06-08-2007, 08:50 AM

Assuming that you are referring to a closed polygon made up of three intersecting sides on a flat plane, you can't.

**Blue_Frog** · 06-08-2007, 08:53 AM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Assuming that you are referring to a closed polygon made up of three intersecting sides on a flat plane, you can't.

Ahh... but I never indicated flat plane did I?

**Blue_Frog** · 06-08-2007, 09:41 AM

Since math likely isn't my strong point, and I shouldn't try to me SMRT with math-like problems (and I more than likely fudged up what i was trying to say before) heres a couple more to try -- a Mystery and a Puzzle

Mystery #1: A man marries twenty women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy.

Mystery #2: A man rides into town on Friday. He stays three nights and leaves on Friday.

Puzzle #1: Connect all 9 dots, using only 4 straight lines.