Lol.. This was on reddit once. Got into a whole argument with a millennial, he said the 1940 was impossible to solve. Gave him the complete formula of how to solve it, and he went ballistic. Doubled down on his stupidity by zooming in on the picture to prove there are more pixels in some area then in the other. I don't give a crap about the pixels, all the data is in the picture.
Yikes. I'm a fellow millennial, and math is my kryptonite, but even I can see how it's solved. It would take me all day and half the night, but I would get it done eventually. I'm kind of relieved we had the dummy-level math when I was in school though!
Uh oh, now that I'm called out, I shouldn't have been so sassy. I believe you start with the area of the whole rectangle, then calculate the area of the two cut-out circles, using the radius given. Subtract 1/4 of the area of both those circles from the area of the rectangle. Then you move to the rounded edges, which I had to really think about, but I believe you start by calculating the area of both the circles using the radius again (it's a bit blurry, but I assume that's what those numbers are). Then I think you mentally pretend each of those circles are in a square, so calculate the area of the "square", subtract the area of the circle from the area of its "square", you should be left with just the edge corners. Subtract 1/4 of that amount from the rectangle, and that should give you the rounded corner. Was I close?
Lol.. This was on reddit once. Got into a whole argument with a millennial, he said the 1940 was impossible to solve. Gave him the complete formula of how to solve it, and he went ballistic. Doubled down on his stupidity by zooming in on the picture to prove there are more pixels in some area then in the other. I don't give a crap about the pixels, all the data is in the picture.
Yikes. I'm a fellow millennial, and math is my kryptonite, but even I can see how it's solved. It would take me all day and half the night, but I would get it done eventually. I'm kind of relieved we had the dummy-level math when I was in school though!
OK what's the answer?
Uh oh, now that I'm called out, I shouldn't have been so sassy. I believe you start with the area of the whole rectangle, then calculate the area of the two cut-out circles, using the radius given. Subtract 1/4 of the area of both those circles from the area of the rectangle. Then you move to the rounded edges, which I had to really think about, but I believe you start by calculating the area of both the circles using the radius again (it's a bit blurry, but I assume that's what those numbers are). Then I think you mentally pretend each of those circles are in a square, so calculate the area of the "square", subtract the area of the circle from the area of its "square", you should be left with just the edge corners. Subtract 1/4 of that amount from the rectangle, and that should give you the rounded corner. Was I close?
Nope. Spot on.
Usually, there’s a line about the diagram not being drawn to scale.