Circle Puzzle

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To dieA, :*
“Can you figure out the radius of the circle?
(…) please do NOT post your answers, but do feel free to say if you have solved the puzzles and how long it took.”
From:
Richard Wiseman
Via Astropixie:
amandabauer.blogspot.com/2010/10/circle-puzzle.html
Atk



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    natedog

    solved it in 2 minutes

    Lamb

    Dude… this is 5th grade math…

    Lamb

    Oh wait… the radius? AHAHAHAHA

    The Matrix: Rebooted

    Instantly.

    nyoki

    If there is anyone who is in high school or older that didn’t get this then my profession has some ‘splaining to do.

    nyoki

    Though it might have been more obvious if the hypotenuse had been going left-bottom to top-right. Maybe.

    WistfulD

    That’s not fair. It is a “trick question.” It is deliberately trying to get your brain to look at it and use triangle hypotenuse or circle radius math functions and not think about what you know about rectangles.

    Awesome1

    8

    djethex

    7 minutes.

    djethex

    The green line is not 3″. It’s 2.34.

    DaCheetah

    Assuming the diagram is not fully to scale, that 3″ part can be any size from 0 to 8 inches. 3″ is perfectly possible.

    djethex

    No dude, 45-45-90 triangle has specific proportions.

    DaCheetah

    I facepalmed so hard when I worked out the easy way to solve that…

    Alias

    1.5 minutes of staring at the picture and running calculations in my mind, when suddenly I was like “wait… oh shi…”
    Nice puzzle =)

    Korinthian

    I solved it in one second.

    I won’t tell you how many quotation marks long the radius is, though.

    davids125

    Stared at it for about 2 min, sometimes it takes a while to see the little things.

    rebelyell2006

    Let me guess, is the radius 7 inches?

    casemods UID# 667

    11

    casemods UID# 667

    oops I forgot to not say the answer

    AgZed

    I’m not sure how long it took me, really. I kinda skimmed past the actual question and thought I was supposed to find the measurements of the other 2 sides of the triangle. Which I did, but I needed to determine the radius of the circle, which was the answer to the fucking question, and I don’t remember when I figured that out. I really shouldn’t try to do this shit while drunk. Well, not drunk, exactly, but definitely buzzed.

    del

    I’d say about 3 seconds of morning-head processing time. The reason I knew the answer was much cooler than the answer itself though. It was from a science museum I went to as a kid which had a circular pool table with just one hole in the centre. Cunning. 😉

    bstaples

    Alright, i’m just gonna man up and be honest and say “I don’t get it”.

    Why are some people acting like the answer is purely mathmatical while others are like “when you see it, you’ll shit bricks”?

    limpgod

    …it’s both. all you need is basic math, but until you use some imagination (try symmetry) you’ll have a hard time; hence the brickshitting factor =)

    WistfulD

    The trick is that it is set up such that you look at the triangles and the circle and your brain tries to make you solve the problem that way. The answer, however, is solvable in 0.1 seconds if you instead shift your brain to think about what you know about rectangles. If you crank on it for a while working on triangle math and suddenly realize the rectangle solution, it’s kind of a facepalm moment.

    dieAntagonista

    Aw. Circles make me happy, thanks Atk. I didn’t have the number right away because I wasn’t sure what the quotation marks indicated. Damn inches, metric system for the win.
    I was also surprised by the right angle signs, is that what you use in America to mark a right angle, a little square? We use a little curve.
    My old headmistress used to slam a ruler on our fingers if we got this wrong. Lovely woman.

    Sticky

    Hah. If a teacher tried that here there’d be a major lawsuit for abuse against students. 😛

    dieAntagonista

    Ah yes, “civilisation.” Although I should say it didn’t really hurt, but everyone was afraid of it anyway so it was mental terror.

    Lamb

    In Romania both are accepted.

    dieAntagonista

    Yeah I looked it up, it seems only German speaking countries do the curve. In Romania you’re more exposed to English than German, even though German is the most widely spoken language in Europe. I don’t like all these little differences, it makes feel insecure since globally English is more important.

    Lamb

    I’m the one in a 2nd world country… Stop feeling insecure about speaking the devil’s language.

    dieAntagonista

    Si eu as fi vrut sa stau in romania. Fuck you. And I don’t feel insecure about speaking it, only mathematical differences bother me for obvious reasons.

    Lamb

    Mai poti sa te muti daca vrei. Hug you, too. Not that obvious, but I get it.

    dieAntagonista

    Nu e asa de usor sa te adaptezi alt undeva. You know me, so it is obvious. Monkeybutt.

    Lamb

    Plus despartirea de prieteni si lipsa unei modalitati bune de facut bani. *raises his finger and opes his mouth* *accepts defeat* Kittytooshie.

    Sticky

    Aw. I was expecting some very ungentlemanly and lady like behaviors, like biting thumbs.

    Reaver

    Psych Major reporting in.

    Dreth

    I can totally see myself using this in the world of employment.

    Pants

    international baccalaureate graduate ready and accounted for

    RepairmanJackX

    oh, I see it. Derp.

    storminmormon

    College has me doin such high levels of math that simple problems like this frustrate the shit out of me. I know I know how to solve this but I am so used to going through three sheets of paper to solve a problem that using simple math just seems wrong. :S

    Puulaahi

    I got it, but fuck I hate math. Math is proof that hell exists.

    Babazon

    After spending 10 minutes with a, b and r, I wanted to use the diagonal and BAM!.. 😀

    Those who still can’t get it. Check out the other diagonal of that rectangle, what is it?

    sleepyjoe256

    Good God I’m glad I’m a music major. This shit makes my head hurt.

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