Complex Geometry Puzzles Explained

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Timestamps

0:00 Triangle and 5 rectangles
1:05 Wood piece puzzle
2:36 Inscribed triangle problem
5:03 Wertheimer’s car riddle
7:14 Shaded area problem

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[BaeYeou]

I feel like calling these "impossible" and then immediately solving them is kinda dirty, especially since actual unsolved mathematical problems have been showcased here before.

I clicked on this video hoping to see strange impossible problems when really they're just difficult to crack.

[degrees]

The last one can be solved with slightly less hassle if you circumscribe a circle around the star shape, then a hexagon. It will be obvious that the circle has the same excess area wrt the inner hexagon as that one has wrt the the star shape.

[Mayank-lvvb]

7:14, is the answer (1/30) hrs, 2 Minutes ??

[jimi]

The first one belongs to elementary school (at least it should) by me being bad at math and still being able to solve it in less than a minute by just staring at the image.