An easier version of this puzzle is
here.
A large panel needs to be moved through a corridor, the panel is tall as the corridor. The corridor is A feet wide before a right angle turn, after the turn, it is B feet wide.
What is the maximum length of the panel that can pass through this corner.
Overhead view of the hallway:
+------------+---
| / |
| / |B ft
| / |
| /+------
| / |
| / |
| / |
| / |
| / |
| / |
| / |
|/ |
+<-A ft-->|
(In reply to
stars on 45 by Lee)
It's 45 degrees only when the width of both halls are equal. It would be more obvious if you imagine the difference between the 2 hallways being very different. Imagine this, hall A is 10 feet wide and B is 1 foot wide (not much of a hallway, I know) but in that case if the panel is touching both outer walls and the inner corner when it's at 45 degrees then it's clearly too big to round the corner
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Posted by Danny
on 2004-05-27 08:05:06 |
re: stars on 45
