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is it a trick question in any way?
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It's not a trick question in any way whatsoever.
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Impossible to answer without knowing more about the door.
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Kev, I think you are wrong. 13m is the shortest line. I have drawn a 2x scale room on graph paper and it tells me the answer is 13
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11.915
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i'll have to give up then. i can't get it less than 13.
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The door is irrelevant.
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11.915 is wrong. Don't give up MM!
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i can't think of anything else though kev. i've been trying for an hour!
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This has nothing to do with xmas..
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Five by Five. It's a question and it's christmas.
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12.961
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ffs kev, just tell us your fecking answer, or is this a wind-up?
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not very quick though is it :)
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Don, you're just making numbers up, aren't you?
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It's not the 25th dec (nap)
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munch man and evski. Do you know pythagoras theorem?
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lol no evski, I swear i've done this fing puzzle before
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yes, i do kev, that was what my answers were based on
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I think the door opens inwards and is the height of the point on the one side.
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yes. a^2+b^2=c^2
If you are using pythagoras the shortest a is 13 and the shortest b is 1 leading to 170^1/2 which is more than 13 |
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just seen this , when will the answer be put up ?
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just seen this , when will the answer be put up ?
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Agreed, get sqrt 170 also, think you need to form another triangle of some sort
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well being over 1hr since original post doesn't make it a 'quick' christmas question. I hate false advertising.
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evski. You can make a right handed triangle from the dots 12.5 long & 3.5 high.
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but I don't want to :(
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if we use a side wall the minimum length is 13 because 2x1.5 +10 =13 even if the dots are the same height.
if we use the ceiling or the roof the sum to the floor/celiing at each end is min of 3m which again makes a min of 13 |
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but the line would have to be in thin air then kev, no?
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damn - my triangle was left handed :(
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munch man. No.
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I don't see how
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14.05 ?
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can you tell us kev please, i have to go out in a bit.
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Have we confirmed that the door opens inwards? And is the door painted?
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Give me 5 minutes. I am just working on an explanation. It isn't easy without drawing it.
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Maybe the door isnt a flat surface? :)
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10.95 nap
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he's told us the answer - its root 168.5. the question is how do you get that
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does the line go along the side AND bottom walls?
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