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How many Triangles can you find in this Image?

 
 
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Reply Wed 29 Oct, 2008 01:49 pm
how about 45? imagine you are looking down at the top of a pyramid, and the center of the picture is the top of the point.
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Reply Sun 2 Nov, 2008 01:06 pm
it's obviously 9024, I don't know how you can't see them all :\ stop looking in just two dimensions, people... really now
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View Profile dminera
 
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 05:26 pm
there are 40
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 05:31 pm
48 i think
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 05:33 pm

34 i think
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 05:36 pm
52 triangles
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 06:01 pm
If we think of this mathematically...

Look at the largest square.
First lets break it up into halves to get 2 main triangles.
We can rotate these triangles so there are actually 4 possible halfves
depending on which 2 positions we choose.

Even further we can break it up into 4ths
Which will produce 4 triangles, one in each of the possible positions.

So from the largest square we have a total so far of 8 triangles

Now look at one of the smaller squares
The same applies rules apply.
If we break it up into halves, we have 4 possible triangles
If we break it up into fourths we have 4 possible triangles.

So for each smaller square we have 8 triangles.
Since there are 4 smaller squares 4*8 = 32 Triangles.

This puts our total at 40, which should be all possible triangles.
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Reply Wed 5 Nov, 2008 06:08 pm
A correction...
It is 44.

Here is the corrected explanation of all 44 triangles...
If we think of this mathematically...

Look at the largest square.
First lets break it up into halves to get 2 main triangles.
We can rotate these triangles so there are actually 4 possible halfves
depending on which 2 positions we choose.

Even further we can break it up into 4ths
Which will produce 4 triangles, one in each of the possible positions.

So from the largest square we have a total so far of 8 triangles

Now look at one of the smaller squares
The same applies rules apply.
If we break it up into halves, we have 4 possible triangles
If we break it up into fourths we have 4 possible triangles.

So for each smaller square we have 8 triangles.
Since there are 4 smaller squares 4*8 = 32 Triangles.

This puts our total at 40.

Now look at the diamond inside the largest square.
This is just another large square.
The fourths we have already accounted for in the smaller squares.
But the halves are new.

Thus we add the last 4 halves and our grand total is 44.
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View Profile ahmik
 
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Reply Wed 19 Nov, 2008 06:54 pm
zero it is a square with designs
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Reply Fri 16 Jan, 2009 12:50 pm
There are 44 triangles.
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Reply Tue 20 Jan, 2009 08:42 pm
Gosh at first go, I count at least 56 triangles.
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Reply Fri 30 Jan, 2009 03:36 am
I got 48
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Reply Mon 2 Feb, 2009 02:04 pm
I also counted 44
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Reply Mon 2 Feb, 2009 05:06 pm
wait.. is it really 48? Cause i keep getting 44 and i am one of those people who will keep staring at the computer screen until i see 48.. that is if there really is 48.. sooo... is it?
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View Profile Dabead
 
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Reply Mon 2 Feb, 2009 09:30 pm
You Guys are all wrong! It's 48
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Reply Mon 2 Feb, 2009 09:31 pm
okay, the correct answer is 48, right?
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View Profile Mama Z
 
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Reply Wed 4 Feb, 2009 01:35 pm
I read through all these expecting to find a final answer from the person who posted this in the first place. As far as I can see that doesn't happen. Anyway, I found the definitive answer here: http://www.transum.org/Software/SW/Starter_of_the_day/starter_January23.ASP - The correct answer is 44 as you will see if you scroll to the bottom of the link.
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Reply Mon 9 Feb, 2009 08:29 am
I got 68... can I do it again, not sure.
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2009 08:55 pm
my husband says there are 68.
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Reply Tue 10 Feb, 2009 10:33 pm
I got 44 too!
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