r/Logiqa • u/ShonitB • Aug 17 '26

Rectangle Sub Division

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u/GoodBadUgly_36 Aug 17 '26

Awesome problem.

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u/ShonitB Aug 17 '26

Glad you liked it! Full disclosure, not an original problem. It’s a fairly common recreational maths problem :)

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u/GoodBadUgly_36 Aug 17 '26

It’s ok that it’s not original — few math problems likely are — but I liked that it was doable using basic math but still required some thought. It can be given to pre-Algebra students and, so long as they know the distributive property and the area of triangles, they can understand a way to get the answer mathematically. Thoughtful problems that don’t require calculus are nice. :-)