You are given three identical bricks, shaped as rectangular parallelepipeds, and a measuring tape or a ruler .
Your task is to evaluate the length of the inner diagonal of a brick.
You could measure the length, width and height of a single brick and use the Pythagorean theorem a^2+b^2+c^2=d^2. But that requires some calculating so I wouldn't consider it the simplest.
Instead, arrange the bricks in an L shape so that the space diagonal of a fourth imaginary brick can be measured directly.
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In the top view, measure from the bottom of the SE corner of the C brick to the top of the SE corner of the B.
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Posted by Jer
on 2022-04-04 07:03:40 |
Which is simpler?
