That's my `A' student. The areas of triangles and surrounding rectangle are just inconsistent. However, the upper-left and lower-right rectangle (C) are going to be equal in area only if they do intersect on the diagonal; if they're free to intersect anyplace you can quite easily make the two of different sizes.
I'd have rather they fixed the areas of the triangles, since it's just so nice being able to use similar triangles in pretty near any context.
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Date: 2005-10-12 02:26 pm (UTC)That's my `A' student. The areas of triangles and surrounding rectangle are just inconsistent. However, the upper-left and lower-right rectangle (C) are going to be equal in area only if they do intersect on the diagonal; if they're free to intersect anyplace you can quite easily make the two of different sizes.
I'd have rather they fixed the areas of the triangles, since it's just so nice being able to use similar triangles in pretty near any context.