tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post3734794224547532585..comments2024-03-19T07:30:55.288-04:00Comments on Curmudgeon: Lake PuzzleCurmudgeonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04323026187622872114noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-1737556312920421402010-10-12T12:45:50.409-04:002010-10-12T12:45:50.409-04:00Answer link has just been posted.Answer link has just been posted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-77282436634770746372010-10-09T11:36:00.421-04:002010-10-09T11:36:00.421-04:00ok, there has to be better than what I did.
my l...ok, there has to be better than what I did. <br /><br />my last calculation was that the area was equal to one half of the square of the difference of the product of 74 and 370 and 164 squared.<br /><br />It is pleasing that my answer agrees with the other commenter, but...<br /><br />there has to be a better way.<br /><br />I thought about Heron, but the subtractions looked messy.<br /><br />I dropped an altitude, wrote two pythagorean equations, solved for the position of the altitude on the base, then for the altitude, then for the area.<br /><br />Can I jump quicker to the end? Clean things up? Or the neatest approach is entirely different?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8705078887057341738.post-8892684903742467542010-10-07T12:40:50.770-04:002010-10-07T12:40:50.770-04:0011 acres?11 acres?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com