What fraction is shaded?

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  • @TheBeardedMathMan
    @TheBeardedMathMan16 күн бұрын

    I think this is a great problem to use in my geometry class when they learn basic trig and the two special right triangles.

  • @otherix
    @otherix16 күн бұрын

    Visual Solve. Mirror the smallest triangle into the shaded area. It's equal to half of it. So, shaded area is 2/3 of 1/2 of the rectangle. 1/3.

  • @JustBreadGD

    @JustBreadGD

    5 күн бұрын

    This is the method that I used too! Unfortunately it is a bit more situational and less universal

  • @giovannipressacco5131

    @giovannipressacco5131

    2 күн бұрын

    its not only visual, trying to solve that without remembering all the things about 30-60 triangles i proved that those are congruent triangles with basic trigonometry and so the problem is solved

  • @harrington8
    @harrington816 күн бұрын

    I'm no magician but 30/90 = 1/3.

  • @idkdikdidkd

    @idkdikdidkd

    16 күн бұрын

    thanks for telling this , now I can get my job at google

  • @borstenpinsel

    @borstenpinsel

    16 күн бұрын

    So in your opinion the 3 areas are the same? The white and the other white is also 1/3? How can that be when there is a diagonal which halves a rectangle by definition? The white in top is exactly the same as the red + lower white.

  • @brownfamily1892

    @brownfamily1892

    16 күн бұрын

    @@borstenpinsel it's just a wild guess

  • @TurtleGod2

    @TurtleGod2

    16 күн бұрын

    Pretty sure it’s 3/1

  • @wither67

    @wither67

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@TurtleGod2LMAOOOO WHAT 😭😭😭💀

  • @sensibleb
    @sensibleb16 күн бұрын

    If you bisect the shaded area between the diagonal and the 120 degree angle, you get 3 identical triangles in the lower right half of the rectangle. The shaded area is 2/3 of that, or 1/3 of the entire rectangle.

  • @shadyamigo

    @shadyamigo

    16 күн бұрын

    Nice

  • @Rikdewinter

    @Rikdewinter

    16 күн бұрын

    This the way

  • @paulvansommeren

    @paulvansommeren

    16 күн бұрын

    How do you know tho before you get to the bottom being 2x + x?

  • @heavybrambles

    @heavybrambles

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@paulvansommeren You know the interior angle of the shaded triangle is 120 degrees from the alternate angle ('Z') theorum. That means it's a 30 30 120 triangle, which is isosceles; the bisector of the opposite angle goes through the midpoint of the hypotenuse. The smaller unshaded triangle and one half of the bisected shaded area are now congruent. It's a nice way of looking at it without ever having to assign values to sides.

  • @conmac1351

    @conmac1351

    16 күн бұрын

    ​@@paulvansommerenWhen you bisect that angle, you create two triangles. The corner angle is 30, the bisected angle is 60, so the remaining angle must be 90. That right triangle shares a hypotenuse with the small white triangle, and they're both 30-60-90. Therefore they must be identical.

  • @FurbleBurble
    @FurbleBurble16 күн бұрын

    "Hey guys, this looks like a fun one." It's been my experience that when you approach something with a positive attitude you can make that something fun, and that's what I see with your videos. I appreciate that.

  • @Rikdewinter
    @Rikdewinter16 күн бұрын

    The shaded area is twice the small triangle, because If you split it in half, the small triangle shares a side and an angle. So 3 small triangles fit in half the rectangle. Six in the full rectangle. 2 are shaded. 2/6. 1/3.

  • @4.0.4
    @4.0.416 күн бұрын

    Can't spell "Thirty-Sixty-Ninety Triangle" without "Sixty-Nine".

  • @AndyMath

    @AndyMath

    16 күн бұрын

    Amazing!

  • @zendoclone1
    @zendoclone115 күн бұрын

    Feels like the scenic route was taken on this one. Just turn the rectangle into 4 30/60/90 triangles, find the hypotenuse of the upper left triangle, divide by 2 and call it a day.

  • @o0QuAdSh0t0o
    @o0QuAdSh0t0o16 күн бұрын

    How. Exciting.

  • @roger7341
    @roger734116 күн бұрын

    Above and below the major diagonal are each 1/2. The red is twice the white below the diagonal, so red is (2/3) of (1/2)=2/6 or 1/3 of the rectangle.

  • @keith6706

    @keith6706

    16 күн бұрын

    How do you know the red is twice the white?

  • @jts3077

    @jts3077

    16 күн бұрын

    @@keith6706draw a line that bisects the red from the 120 degree angle inside the red and you’ll get two triangles. If you work out all the angles of the triangles, i.e. the 2 red and 1 white, all the triangles must be equal. So red must be 2x white

  • @m4rkv
    @m4rkv11 күн бұрын

    Shaded area is isosceles therefore the 2 short sides are equal. Drop a line from the vertex of that isosceles to the base to make 2 congruent right triangles. The unshaded right triangle is also congruent as it shares a hypotenuse. So there are 6 congruent right triangles in the rectangle and the shaded area contains 2. (1/3)

  • @ethastum
    @ethastum15 күн бұрын

    You can also shift the top point of the triangle into the top left corner of the rectangle, then when we're told that the baseline of the triangle is 2/3's of the long side of the rectangle we can see that the triangle occupies half of 2/3 of the box, aka. 1/3 of the box. (The rule of shifting any corner of the triangle is that it must be shifted in a line parallel to the opposite side of the triangle. The area of the triangle is held constant since A=1/2*b*h doesn't care about the angles, and the baseline and height is the same)

  • @mattjw16
    @mattjw1614 күн бұрын

    I did something very similar using trig. We know from the top triangle that the length of the left side of the rectangle must be some multiple of sin30 and the top must be some multiple of cos30. For simplicity, let’s say that the diagonal along the rectangle is 1 so that they are just sin30 and cos30 respectively. This means that the right side of the rectangle must also be sin30. We know from the bottom triangle that the length of right side must be some multiple of cos30. But we already know this length is sin30. So we can compute the hypotenuse of the bottom triangle to be sin30/cos30. Then the bottom side of the bottom triangle must be sin^2(30)/cos30. Now we can compute the area of the top triangle to be √3/8 and the area of the bottom triangle to be √3/24. We can also compute the area of the entire rectangle to be √3/4. Then we can compute the area of the middle rectangle to be √3/12. Finally (√3/12)/(√3/4) = 1/3 so the middle triangle is roughly 33% of the rectangle.

  • @andreaahplay6152
    @andreaahplay615213 күн бұрын

    Nice, I did it this way: the hypotenuse is dividing the rectangle into 1/2, so I took the smaller right triangle and tried how many times it would fit into the triangle, so I know that two pairs would fit 3 times, so the small triangle is 1/6, now 1/2-1/6=4/12, 4/12=1/3.

  • @Crowsinger
    @Crowsinger15 күн бұрын

    When you found that the small triangle's hipothenuse was 2x, you could've noted that the shaded triangle had two equal sides due to the 30° angles, so the rest of the rectangle's side would've been 2x as well. From then on the areas would've been x.h and 2x.h, and h's value would've been irrelevant.

  • @yepyepmusic
    @yepyepmusic16 күн бұрын

    Good as always.

  • @robertdoherty4539
    @robertdoherty453916 күн бұрын

    this looks like a fun one

  • @paparmar
    @paparmar16 күн бұрын

    The larger of the two white triangles is clearly exactly half the rectangle’s area (its hypothenuse being the rectangle’s diagonal). The smaller white triangle is similar to the larger one, as both are 30-60-90 triangles. If you set the legs of the smaller to be 1 and SQRT(3), then the corresponding legs of the larger would be SQRT(3) and 3. From there, you can see that the smaller is one-third the area of the larger, which means it’s one-sixth the area of the rectangle. That leaves the red triangle with the remaining one-third of the rectangle’s area.

  • @zircon256ua
    @zircon256ua14 күн бұрын

    that was surprisingly simple

  • @NoOne-oh2nv
    @NoOne-oh2nv10 күн бұрын

    At 1:23 why did you multiplied x√3*√3?? Is is compulsory that side adjacent to 60° angle except hypotenuse will be n??

  • @tuancuongle1296
    @tuancuongle129616 күн бұрын

    Oh my gawd the answer fit perfectly

  • @MrPaulc222
    @MrPaulc22215 күн бұрын

    I got there by a different route, but I liked your way too :) I had 1/2 + 1/3rd of 1/2 = 4/6 or 2/3, so the remaining was 1/3. However, like your method, mine also needed some prior knowledge.

  • @saltydog584
    @saltydog58413 күн бұрын

    The usual notation to indicate equal angles is a line through the angles that are the same.

  • @AceSkates
    @AceSkates16 күн бұрын

    Please correct me if I am wrong; wouldn't the fraction of the corner that it takes up always be equal to the fraction of the area of the rectangle it is in? Based on the fact that the most any triangle can take up of a rectangle (where it must touch the bottom opposite corner) is half and that angle would be half of 90?

  • @AceSkates

    @AceSkates

    16 күн бұрын

    yeah I just played with it matlab, i think that i am right

  • @brianglendenning1632
    @brianglendenning163216 күн бұрын

    That was brilliant

  • @Bingus4
    @Bingus416 күн бұрын

    first one i solved by myself i really lo ve this man

  • @rothgang
    @rothgang15 күн бұрын

    is the shaded triangle also isosceles?

  • @devisweety407
    @devisweety40713 күн бұрын

    I think this problem has a smallest way so can you . I think it is 90/3 3 is for the equal angles hence 30/90. Also the first angle which is 30 is at the half side of the rectangle so 1/2 then the left angle is 60 so all angles are equal so 30 and 30 so 1/3

  • @samuelemeryjiujitsu
    @samuelemeryjiujitsu8 күн бұрын

    can you not guarantee the shaded area by the fact that they have equal angles from the corner?

  • @spenzr6920
    @spenzr6920Күн бұрын

    I thought only 2 of them are equal so i got the result: (l²+b²)2l² where l is length and b is breadth of the rectangle. Plugging in the sides he got (3x and x√3) you still get 1/3 :D

  • @leonardomadruga9090
    @leonardomadruga909011 күн бұрын

    I was bored and paused the video to do it myself before I saw your solution. If the angles are all equal, they're all 30 degrees. You can also figure out that the angle the shaded triangle makes with the bottom side of the rectangle is also 30 degrees based on some geometric theorem (I think it's alternate interior angles or something). Using that, you can determine that the shaded triangle is an isoceles triangle, with the base running along the diagonal. From there, you need to determine the side lengths. If the short side of the rectangle is a length x, then the base of the shaded triangle is 2x. To determine the height, you need to figure out that the height makes yet another 30 60 90 with half the base and one of the sides as the hypotenuse. Using ratios, you find the height is x/sqrt(3). Multiplying the area of the shaded triangle you get x^2 over sqrt(3). The area of the rectangle is sqrt(3) times x^2, so now you can find the proportion by dividing the shaded area by the rectangle's area. x^2 over sqrt(3) times 1 over (sqrt(3) times x^2) equals 1/3.

  • @Valorant645
    @Valorant64514 күн бұрын

    Can you calculete whats The probality of being in a game named Valorant and The 2 team picked same agents. There are 24 agents and in one team 2 people can not choose The same agent

  • @efendiminati
    @efendiminati15 күн бұрын

    1/4 if the middle line split the side of the rectangle in half

  • @efendiminati

    @efendiminati

    15 күн бұрын

    Nah the angles are same if small triangles 60 degree root 3 big triangles 30 degree becomes root 3 so 60 degree become 3 3-1 2 twice size of small triangle 1/2.2/3= 1/3

  • @WFireW.
    @WFireW.16 күн бұрын

    You're too brilliant

  • @marcorizzo3854
    @marcorizzo38547 күн бұрын

    It is easier to solve by similar triangles

  • @frinpi7473
    @frinpi747316 күн бұрын

    andy got sponsored? big w

  • @iamdynamight777
    @iamdynamight77716 күн бұрын

    Big fan here Andy. I had a question. Is it possible to solve this problem without the use of the 30-60-90 triangle theorem?

  • @idkdikdidkd

    @idkdikdidkd

    16 күн бұрын

    its not a theorem

  • @godofwar5620

    @godofwar5620

    16 күн бұрын

    Don't comment if you're not gonna answer his question, no need to judge. ​@@idkdikdidkd

  • @Qermaq

    @Qermaq

    16 күн бұрын

    I don't see why you would want or need to. As the right angle is trisected, you get that these angles are 30 degrees for free. Once you know that, the rest is simple. Sure, we could do the extra steps - noting that an equilateral triangle has all angles congruent, and triangles in a plane have interior angles totaling 180, so each angle is 60, then drawing an altitude for the equilateral triangle, noting that the bisected angle must be 30, noting the bisected base is half the hypotenuse, and using Pythagoras to find the long leg, and then yeah, you don't need to know the 30-60-90 triangle. But why not just remember it and save yourself a lot of re-proving the basics? Knowing the 30 60 90 triangle in geometry and trigonometry is like knowing how to clip your toenails in real life.

  • @iamdynamight777

    @iamdynamight777

    16 күн бұрын

    @@Qermaq Thanks for the explanation. See, the thing is that I totally understand the reason behind the angles having their respective values, But i thought of asking my question bcuz often in my school we have to prove a bunch of things like this in geometry. Most of the times we need to do it without any angle measurements and just with the formulas. That's why I thought it would be good ask Andy, even tho it would be easy to work it out if I try.

  • @idkdikdidkd

    @idkdikdidkd

    16 күн бұрын

    @@godofwar5620 my choice , who are you ?

  • @someonespadre
    @someonespadre16 күн бұрын

    How do we find the entire skateboard video?

  • @AndyMath

    @AndyMath

    16 күн бұрын

    There is link on the youtube short, or you can search "skategirl math." Let me know if you can't find it.

  • @someonespadre

    @someonespadre

    16 күн бұрын

    @@AndyMath found it. Tried clicking on the short but that just paused it.

  • @AndyMath

    @AndyMath

    16 күн бұрын

    @@someonespadre I am glad you found it. I hope you liked it!

  • @JulianTimMusic
    @JulianTimMusic16 күн бұрын

    Damn I used the fact that the biggest triangle is half of the rectangle and then used the similar triangle thing to calculate that the small triangle is 3 times as small as the big one so together they’re 1/2 + 1/6 = 2/3 so the shaded triangle is 1/3.

  • @sweetcornwhiskey
    @sweetcornwhiskey16 күн бұрын

    This problem only has a solution for this specific case of rectangle. If you allow for a slightly wider or narrower rectangle, then there is not a clear solution

  • @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    15 күн бұрын

    But then the 3 angles would not be equal, so wouldn't even be the same question.

  • @sweetcornwhiskey

    @sweetcornwhiskey

    15 күн бұрын

    @@Grizzly01-vr4pn The three angles would be equal, as that was the only condition on the problem. This rectangle was chosen specifically such that its long side was sqrt(3) * its short side. If the side lengths did not have this condition, then none of the lines would be a diagonal of the rectangle.

  • @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    15 күн бұрын

    @@sweetcornwhiskey ... and so the 3 angles would not be equal.

  • @sweetcornwhiskey

    @sweetcornwhiskey

    15 күн бұрын

    @@Grizzly01-vr4pn The three angles being equal is the only condition on this problem, and is the only thing I've assumed here.

  • @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    15 күн бұрын

    @@sweetcornwhiskey if you change the relative dimensions of the rectangle, the 3 angles would no longer be equal. It would no longer be the same question.

  • @larrychatfield
    @larrychatfield16 күн бұрын

    totally just guessed 1/3 since they all are 30deg angles so ...

  • @Qwerty_O284
    @Qwerty_O28416 күн бұрын

    5 mins ago is crazy

  • @aaanimates1228
    @aaanimates122816 күн бұрын

    HOW I SOLVED IT'S RECTANGLE SO ALL ANGLES ARE 90° SO OPOSITE SIDE WHICH SEEMS TO BE HALF WHITE AND OTHER RED SO 90÷2 =45

  • @erin_rose0

    @erin_rose0

    16 күн бұрын

    what

  • @Yilmaz4

    @Yilmaz4

    16 күн бұрын

    i think this is a little beyond your grade

  • @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    @Grizzly01-vr4pn

    15 күн бұрын

    @@Yilmaz4 🤣🤣

  • @tanko.reactions176
    @tanko.reactions17616 күн бұрын

    sin(radians(30))/sin(radians(60)) ------------------------------------------------------- sin(radians(60))/sin(radians(30))

  • @tanko.reactions176

    @tanko.reactions176

    16 күн бұрын

    or sin(radians(30))^2 ------------------------------------------------------- sin(radians(60))^2

  • @wanexline
    @wanexline16 күн бұрын

    hi alpbsmc

  • @pierwszywolnynick
    @pierwszywolnynick8 күн бұрын

    I guess this one wasn't exciting

  • @kelugo
    @kelugo16 күн бұрын

    Meow

  • @Sg190th
    @Sg190th16 күн бұрын

    37 seconds and no views is wickedry

  • @idkdikdidkd

    @idkdikdidkd

    16 күн бұрын

    people like to watch girls twerk

  • @kushalsai8099

    @kushalsai8099

    16 күн бұрын

    New way of "bro fell off" ??

  • @Sg190th

    @Sg190th

    16 күн бұрын

    @@kushalsai8099 Nah that shit gets old so I just say the algorithm is wild