Cutting Corners in a Rectangle
- Author:
- Bill Lombard
Cutting Corners in a Rectangle
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to locate points
E and F so that the areas of triangles 1, 2, and 3 are equal.
Suggestion: highlight E or F and use cursor (arrow) keys to adjust.
This gives maximum control of the values. Fibonacci says"
"The ratios of g/h and r/t are provided as suggestions."
Problem source: J A H Hunter's Triangle Inscribed In a Rectangle
in The Fibonacci Quarterly, Vol 1, 1963, Issue 3, page 66.
http://www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/hosted-sites/R.Knott/Fibonacci/phi2DGeomTrig.html