NeoPets Riddles (Lenny Conundrums) and Answers Here

The exact same thing happened to me!! LOL, not complaining at all though .

and me

any1 know the answer to the new mystery pic?

I didn't get the NM twice
how rude

anybody know the answer?
any1 kno the answer to the new mystery pic that just started today? (october 25th 2006) thx and any1 kno the lenny conundrum?

Re: anybody know the answer?


While the Maraqua Circle from last week's Lenny Conundrum is well known in pirate lore, the legend of the Mystery Island Triangle is less well known. In the Mystery Island Triangle, it is rumoured that scurvy and seasickness are slightly more likely to occur. And the barnacles! Oh, the barnacles!


Anyway, the area of the Mystery Island Triangle is bounded on one side by the Maraquan Circle and on the other two sides by the lines connecting Mystery Island with Maraqua and Krawk Island.

What is the area of the Mystery Island Triangle? Please round up to the nearest 25 square kilometres, and please only submit a number! (For example, if the answer is 5156 square kilometres, only submit the number "5175".) Submitting any information other than a number may result in your submission being marked wrong!

THERE IS ALSO A PICTURE GO TO THE WEBSITE BELOW.. PLZ HELP ME!!!


http://www.neopets.com/games/conundrum.phtml

lets solve it... lol

Hi,

Was anyone able to solve the new lenny as of yet?

My math is horrible and I am stuck on this one. I wish I could help. Hopeful someone will come and give us some help.

It isn't speculation. the formula for the radius of the circle inscribed inside a scalene triangle is sqrt[(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)/s] where s is the semiperimeter.


I noticed this on an earlier post. Maybe this is a clue.

If you people are just hanging around to find the answer without contributing, then you are not being fair to the ones who work hard to solve the puzzles. Either fish or cut bait - don't just bludge on the ones who work hard.

sqrt[(s-a)(s-b)(s-c)/s]

that formula is also how to find the area of the big triangle

what I'm thinking:
find the area of big triangle, subtract area of circle (18200), and divide by 3

but that's probably not the way to do it since the big triangle isn't an equilateral triangle and the three ares wouldn't be equal

and that would be too easy.

Dang, that's what I was thinking too. Glad I didn't submit that answer.

long shot
k, so other than lc's, it's been 15 years since i needed math for anything, but here's what i did--

took the area of the space we are trying to solve + the part of the circle to which it is adjacent, and made two right triangles out of it.

solved those triangles for the area of each triangle and the value of the angle inside the circle.

then i took:
(sum of the areas of the two right triangles) - (((the sum of those two angles)/360)*area of circle)

i got a value and entered it, but thinking that it's quite unlikely to be correct, i am not giving it here. or maybe i should so that all the leeches can get it wrong with me. lol.

I understand where you are coming from but their are some of us who knows more about certain things in math that others don't know. I happen to be good at algebra where someone else in better than me in geometry. So there is where the difference is and that is how I thought we contribute to helping one another solve the LC! I know there are some who hang around just for the answer but I also thought that what this site was for because you are not allowed to discuss the answer or solve the answer on the Neopet Boards.

follow-up
i did, however, get a number significantly smaller than the fallacious divide-by-3 method

I going to continue to work on this and if I get the answer I will come back and share it with others.

Subject: Trigonometry

The question is: Find the area of the circle inscribed in a triangle
a, b, c. The hint is: Draw lines to the center of the circle and use
Heron's law.

I am just guessing at the moment but I hope to get it figured out with in the next few minutes. I was able to find out that this is a Trigonometry problem.

I am not good at Trigonometry. So good luck to all those who come up with the correct answer.

Trig? I'm only in 9th grade. In geometry.