[Guest]

If you study the picture of the two triangles you will see that both have the same dimensions, and that the bottom triangle is just a rearrangement of the exact same pieces from the top triangle. So the question is, where does the extra square in the bottom triangle come from?

[Guest]

Think this is on this site under geometry - whoops

[Guest]

A UFO landed, and the martians rearranged all the sections of the triangle but couldn't put "Humpty together again".

[Guest]

When the two triangles switch places, there is a 6 square displacement where as in the first picture, there is only a 5 square displacement.

[Guest]

I have seen this before. The second triangle is not really a triangle, the slopes of the two smaller triangles don't line up. This difference is where the square went to, nothing was actually taken out.

[rookie1ja]

already posted as one of geometry puzzles

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