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  • Опубликовано: 1 апр 2025
  • Another Catriona Agg Problem. I thought this was a fun one. Let me know if you know another way to solve it!

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  • @kiel7142
    @kiel7142 Год назад +1912

    There's a special spot in heaven for anyone who creates mathematical problems where the answer is 0, 1, 10, or 100

  • @naynorth9947
    @naynorth9947 Год назад +543

    Me seeing my homework: "This looks important, let's put a box around it"

    • @rubetz528
      @rubetz528 Год назад +10

      I do this at work as well, in several different colors actually.

    • @konradyearwood5845
      @konradyearwood5845 Год назад +2

      The problem with that is you cannot tell the teacher that your dog ate it!

    • @marilynman
      @marilynman Год назад +3

      Proceeds to put the notebook in a box.

  • @FlyGuy2000
    @FlyGuy2000 Год назад +613

    Life would be so much simpler if we could put a box around things that look important.

    • @vexinum3837
      @vexinum3837 Год назад +7

      you can

    • @Walkingthrough1
      @Walkingthrough1 Год назад +1

      @@vexinum3837 how do you put a box around things that are important in life?

    • @sinrj9028
      @sinrj9028 Год назад +37

      ​@@Walkingthrough1 you put a box around them.

    • @KenjiLaurvick
      @KenjiLaurvick Год назад

      ​@sinrj9028 how do you put a box around your thoughts

    • @tommycharest-athletecoach5813
      @tommycharest-athletecoach5813 Год назад +9

      ​@@KenjiLaurvick wear a box as a helmet

  • @jobaecker9752
    @jobaecker9752 Год назад +185

    Once again, I over-complicated my approach and had to abandon my work. Then I watched your thought process. How exciting.

  • @Masfugo
    @Masfugo Год назад +84

    I want this man's ability to breakdown things
    didnt even thought about checking angles
    wow

    • @sampyuays
      @sampyuays Год назад +3

      think*

    • @User-jr7vf
      @User-jr7vf Год назад +4

      You will get it with time, if you keep practicing.

    • @king_halcyon
      @king_halcyon Год назад +1

      Well, the similarity thing was the first one I noticed. Bet he found out from comparing the angles. Just observe everything.

  • @miellehubbard4701
    @miellehubbard4701 Год назад +376

    One day..I’ll solve the problem before watching the video

  • @sbubby4548
    @sbubby4548 4 месяца назад +1

    *Andy receiving his Nobel Prize* “That looks important, let’s put a box around it.”
    Love you Andy

  • @Danbotics
    @Danbotics Год назад +87

    I must admit that I usually find videos that have a catch phrase at the end super annoying. That said, whenever something cool happens in my life I now find myself saying “how exciting!” So well played sir! Keep up the great work. ❤

  • @kangkongfan5305
    @kangkongfan5305 Год назад +5

    Bro I love watching math problems from you they’re so satisfying, how exciting.

  • @WhiteWolf-lm7gj
    @WhiteWolf-lm7gj Год назад +10

    Was not expecting to hop onto youtube today and learn more math from a stereotypical looking college frat bro in under 4 minutes than I did all semester in my calculus class, but very informative!

    • @ambiguousdrink4067
      @ambiguousdrink4067 Год назад

      Look, I like to dunk on how unhelpful maths classes sometimes are, but this is literally just familiar triangles, pythagorean theorem and simple arythmatic. Any 15 year old with a B in maths should solve this in 5 minutes tops.

  • @abzs5811
    @abzs5811 Год назад +36

    I respect this man, he is single-handedly, making us smarter if we pay attention!
    Cheers b 🤙🏽

    • @VK-pk8uz
      @VK-pk8uz Год назад +1

      Every teacher ever: "am I a joke to you?"

    • @melikmourali2072
      @melikmourali2072 Год назад +2

      Nope. You're the one making yourself smart by trying to solve the problem. He's just there to help when you give up, succeed or fail.
      Respect to the guy obviously, his presentation is great.

  • @alecDeloyed
    @alecDeloyed Год назад +33

    If my teachers had taught me as you explain, I would have loved mathematics more than I do.

  • @herrahz5894
    @herrahz5894 Год назад +1

    It feels amazing to be able to solve it in the same time as you even tho my last maths class was almost 5 years ago

  • @CatDogDailyPosts
    @CatDogDailyPosts 6 месяцев назад +4

    With just a 13, bro was about to calculate the mass of the sun 💀

  • @grassiscoolguys
    @grassiscoolguys 10 месяцев назад

    1:50 The way I would've done it from here is this:
    Make b = 4a -13
    Plug in: a + 4(4a - 13) = 4a
    16a + a - 52 = 4a
    17a - 4a = 52
    13a = 52
    a = 4
    Plug in a = 4 for the equation for b
    4(4) - 13 = b
    16 - 13 = b
    3 = b
    Solve for the smallest triangles hypotenuse (3^2 + 4^2 = c^2)
    The smallest triangle is a 3 4 5 triangle (special right triangle), so c = 5
    Solve for the squares
    5 * 5 = 25
    Since there's 4 squares: 25 * 4 = 100
    That's our answer, I'm not sure if my way takes any longer, I just don't like dealing with fractions at all

  • @m2ral
    @m2ral Год назад

    This guy making the world a better place

  • @thumbhead007
    @thumbhead007 6 месяцев назад

    Idk anything about math, in fact I've stop doing math at 15, but I really enjoyed learning this topic back in school, now I'm completly washed up ofc. But god, I love this channel !

  • @joshsambrook-smith684
    @joshsambrook-smith684 8 месяцев назад

    This is absolutely brilliant. You are my hero.

  • @teddyschmaggins
    @teddyschmaggins Год назад +4

    I'm not sure if this is just the perspective of Andy's camera or the room or if he is tall, but it looks like he is about to hit the ceiling, no? If this is some secret joke to make it seem he is 9ft tall that'd be amazing.
    That was another fun problem, I adore your enthusiasm, and humour, its good fun! So good on ya my man! Have a nice day! :)

  • @Evileex
    @Evileex 7 месяцев назад

    I like it gives a distance of 13 and you completely ignore it and still solve it.

  • @1985WUCT
    @1985WUCT Год назад +7

    Maths has never been so reasonable before 🤩

  • @darkbluemars
    @darkbluemars Год назад +3

    One thing I learned is if it looks important, put a box around it.

  • @alexjimenez8088
    @alexjimenez8088 3 месяца назад

    Thank you. You are very skilled and would be nervous playing board games with you.

  • @AzureKyle
    @AzureKyle Год назад

    Solving this before watching the video. So, the square on the bottom combined with the angles on either side of it on the bottom line is 180 degrees. The square has a 90-degree angle which is translated to the two 90-degree angles on the bottom edges of the large square. The angles on the sides of the bottom square also translate to the opposite angles of the two triangles on either side of the shaded area, showing that the triangles are the same, just differently scaled. The hypotenuse of both triangles also matches up with the shaded area, with the smaller triangle being the same as the side of one square, while the larger triangle matches with the side of all four squares. Labeling the sides of the triangle similar to the Pythagorean theorem (a^2+b^2=c^2), the side of the square is c, while the rectangle made up of four squares is 4c. This also shows that the larger triangle is 4x as big as the smaller one, so we'll also label the longer ends a and 4a, and the shorter ends b and 4b. This then shows that the sides of the large square are equal to 4a, 4b+a, and 13+b. So, if we start with 4b+a=13+b and subtract 4b from both sides, we get that a=13-3b. Multiply both sides by 4 and you get 4a=52-12b. Now, since 4a also = 13+b, we can say 13+b=52-12b. subtract 13 from both sides and add 12b to both sides and you wind up with 13b=39. Then you divide both sides by 13 to get b=3. Plug that back into 4a=13+b to get 4a=13+3 or 4a=16. Divide both sides by 4 to get a=4. Now, by using the Pythagorean theorem, we can determine that these are 3, 4, 5 right triangles, meaning that c=5 (a^2+b^2=c^2, 3^2+4^2=c^2, 9+16=c^2, 25=c^2, c=5) Now, the area of the small square is the square of the side, being 25. Multiply that by four squares, and you get the total area of the shaded rectangle to be 100. (conversely, you could multiply the side by 4 to get 20 for the long leg of the rectangle, and then multiply that by the shorter side of 5, to get the area of 100 as well)

  • @fylosofer
    @fylosofer Год назад +1

    Nice. My solve was similar, but I labeled the shorter leg a and longer leg b, and I multiplied by 4 rather than dividing by 4 and avoided having to use any fractions.

  • @caseygreyson4178
    @caseygreyson4178 Год назад +2

    0:57 you missed one piece of information (but obviously it didn’t make much of a difference), the side length of blue-green on the larger triangle has a length of 13 + b of the smaller triangle.

    • @Chrisratata
      @Chrisratata Год назад

      1:43

    • @caseygreyson4178
      @caseygreyson4178 Год назад

      @@Chrisratata I know, my point is that he didn’t establish that earlier, implying that the information was not available yet, even though it was.

  • @youandremadeira
    @youandremadeira 11 месяцев назад

    I LOVE the lets put a box around it

  • @DBoss1009
    @DBoss1009 Год назад

    As soon as I looked at it I knew there were going to be some similar triangles and then I thought "how... exciting"

  • @joshwatts766
    @joshwatts766 27 дней назад

    As a Brit I appreciate the way you pronounce little 👌

  • @vanhdesu
    @vanhdesu Год назад +3

    i solved it in a different way but got to the same answer, feels nice

    • @kaitek666
      @kaitek666 Год назад

      do you remember what you did? can you tell us?

    • @vanhdesu
      @vanhdesu Год назад

      ​@@kaitek666imgur.com/a/AxMbvaH Here's the image and how I labelled it.
      So I started by proving congruent triangles the same way.
      △ABC ᔕ △A'BC', therefore, AB/A'B = BC/BC'
      (x-13)/sqrt(16y^2-x^2) = y/4y = 1/4
      4(x-13) = sqrt(16y^2 - x^2) (*)
      We have: x = AC + CA' = sqrt(y^2 - (x-13)^2) + sqrt(16y^2 - x^2)
      Substitution with (*) we get:
      x = sqrt(y^2 - (16y^2 - x^2)/16) + 4(x - 13)
      x = sqrt(x^2/16) +4x -52
      3x + x/4 = 52
      -> x = 16
      -> y = 5
      -> Area of shaded area = 4y^2 = 100 (sq units)
      Hope this helps!

  • @californiaholtz
    @californiaholtz Год назад +1

    I'd like to see Andy solving these real-time

  • @Situayo
    @Situayo Год назад +2

    Love this one. How exciting

  • @thederpydude2088
    @thederpydude2088 Год назад

    I loved the part where he said a bunch of crazy and unexpected logic that actually made sense (basically the whole video) lol

  • @SiddharthHarsh
    @SiddharthHarsh Год назад +20

    My exams are coming, and i am watching this for no reason

    • @SiddharthHarsh
      @SiddharthHarsh Год назад +1

      Yes

    • @aalekhjain2682
      @aalekhjain2682 Год назад +1

      SST? Kitni taiyari hogyi?

    • @aalekhjain2682
      @aalekhjain2682 Год назад +2

      @@Rohanbeingbusy 😂😂 divided by distance ,United by boards

    • @SiddharthHarsh
      @SiddharthHarsh Год назад +1

      @@aalekhjain2682 economics aur geography complete ho gaya hai history aur civics ke liya digraj sir ka notes hai 😅

    • @aalekhjain2682
      @aalekhjain2682 Год назад

      @@SiddharthHarsh yar Mera abhi sirf civics hua hai, economics aadha ho gaya aaj kar lunga. Kal history pura + geography thoda aur parso geography khatam kar dunga. Fir 1 sample paper dunga Digraj sir ka

  • @PierroCh5
    @PierroCh5 Год назад

    My good sir, I walk through a world in which "fun" and "math" are impossible to fit in the same sentence.

  • @DandoPorsaco-ho1zs
    @DandoPorsaco-ho1zs Год назад

    I neglected to use the ratio 1:40 of the sides, so I went straight into trigonometric ratios... and solved it, but in a slightly harder way, but without Pythagoras.

  • @Purplepentapus_
    @Purplepentapus_ Год назад

    I had a gut feeling it was gonna be a 3,4,5 triangle. The proportions are just so recognizable

    • @Lillmackish
      @Lillmackish Год назад

      Yeah. The few times I've been punished for assuming a figure is to scale unless stated otherwise just won't let any geometrical intuition rest well within me 😂

    • @Purplepentapus_
      @Purplepentapus_ Год назад

      @@Lillmackish i mean yeah, you've still gotta confirm it lol

  • @m.h.6470
    @m.h.6470 2 месяца назад

    Solution:
    First, lets give some names:
    S = short leg of lower left triangle
    L = long leg of lower left triangle
    X = small square sidelength and hypotenuse of the lower left triangle
    The bottom left and right triangles are similar due to identical angles.
    We also know, that the bigger one is 4 times the smaller one, as the hypotenuses are 4X and X repectively.
    Therefore we know, that the big square has the side length of 4L OR 4S + L.
    As such, we have:
    4L = 4S + L |-L
    3L = 4S
    So the big triangle has the legs 3L and 4L. This is just a multiple of the pythagorean triple 3-4-5.
    As such, the hypotenuse is 5L, so 5L = 4X.
    Last but not least, we know that 4L = S + 13.
    This is everything we need to find X:
    4L = S + 13
    4(4S/3) = S + 13 |*3
    16S = 3S + 39 |-3S
    13S = 39 |/13
    S = 3
    4X = 5L
    4X = 5 * (4S/3)
    4X = 5 * (4*3/3)
    4X = 5 * 4 |/4
    X = 5
    The shaded area is 4x² = 4 * 5² = 4 * 25 = 100 units²

  • @yb3604
    @yb3604 Год назад +3

    awesome question, and well-solved and explained.
    i thought they asked for the shaded area that is within the square
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    it's 725/8, if anyone cares

  • @wesleydellinger4344
    @wesleydellinger4344 Год назад +1

    Good work Mr. Math. One more problem down

  • @awesomeaman113
    @awesomeaman113 Год назад +1

    Ok but that fact about the Pythagorean Triple triangle was just showing off.

  • @KrytenKoro
    @KrytenKoro 4 месяца назад

    4b+a=13 +b> a=13-3b
    4b+a=4a > 4b=3a
    4b=69-9b
    B=3
    A=4
    C=5
    Area=100

  • @freebeerecords
    @freebeerecords Год назад

    This channel looks important, Let’s put a sub around it. How exciting.

  • @jasonnathanmason3547
    @jasonnathanmason3547 Месяц назад +1

    1:05 “let’s change the 4 c’s into 4c”

  • @Architools
    @Architools Год назад

    I'm so glad cad programs exist 😂

  • @stoicmadi9704
    @stoicmadi9704 6 месяцев назад

    ... brilliant as always ...

  • @momomunsta8887
    @momomunsta8887 Год назад +1

    someone should put a box around you because your important!

  • @TheSkinnyZ
    @TheSkinnyZ Год назад

    This title is already a paradox in itself!

  • @ivishnuwu82
    @ivishnuwu82 Год назад

    That feeling when you solve it before watching the video...

  • @danielcrompton7818
    @danielcrompton7818 Год назад

    I think we need more information like how those those triangles are the same

  • @mantevian
    @mantevian Год назад +1

    Solved before watching! I love when the answer is magically exactly 100

  • @ralfe2212
    @ralfe2212 Год назад

    There are math channels on RUclips, which make from a simple x-equation a 5 minute video clip. Bummer. And your stuff? I'm not the dumbest in using math, but when i see one of your problems, i usually go: huh? what? HOW? And then you solve it in 3-4 minutes, using just simple algebra and geometry. Awesome!

  • @MiniNoahTheWorm
    @MiniNoahTheWorm Год назад

    Yeah so I had a way worse way of solving it and I still can't confirm if it works because I tried it on the calculator twice and it failed :)
    Anyway, I used the two similar triangles that you used but then decided that I would call the side of the big square x and write the side of a red square in terms of x by using the small triangle in the bottom left corner. I then created a new triangle by connecting the point the shaded area intersects on the left side and the top right corner. That triangle would have the sides x, 13, and sqrt((85x^2)/16-130x+845)
    If it's already wrong at this point or if I messed something up beyond that I do not know but tl;dr my method could probably work but it's too messy and I'm too lazy to figure out what the problem is

  • @skipelen
    @skipelen Год назад

    The evil I tetris piece is messing with my perfect square, Calculate his area to bombard it

  • @VincenzoCiancaglini
    @VincenzoCiancaglini Год назад

    What software do you use for the animations?

  • @davidglanfield7985
    @davidglanfield7985 Год назад

    Beautiful.

  • @vanillacube8159
    @vanillacube8159 7 месяцев назад

    similar triangles were hell...

  • @mixieboots5058
    @mixieboots5058 Год назад

    So, the area of the red squares in the big square is 90.625! Fun!

  • @MARSHT0MP404
    @MARSHT0MP404 Год назад

    i thought we were solving for the area of the shaded squares inside the black box

  • @omalol-n4w
    @omalol-n4w 4 месяца назад

    is there a way to solve it if the problem is "What is the area of the shaded region within the black box?"

  • @Konzon
    @Konzon Год назад +2

    Nice!

  • @Marisueksu
    @Marisueksu Год назад +2

    the 13 skipped entirely, nice

    • @Cheasle2
      @Cheasle2 Год назад +2

      13 was needed to solve the problem, otherwise it was impossible

    • @Marisueksu
      @Marisueksu Год назад

      oh yea missed that nice

  • @namjoonsdimples77
    @namjoonsdimples77 Год назад

    ahhh i wish i can get good at solving those problems because they are so fun! only problem is i'm bad at maths :(

  • @karagumruk2104
    @karagumruk2104 10 месяцев назад

    Good job.

  • @denigrisdaniele
    @denigrisdaniele Год назад

    amazing!

  • @narimene887
    @narimene887 Год назад

    How exciting!

  • @infernogaming1907
    @infernogaming1907 Год назад

    I thought It was asking for the shaded area enclosed in the box, would you be able to work that out without any additional information?

    • @the_verTigO
      @the_verTigO 11 месяцев назад

      The shaded part that sticks out at the top is also one of those similar triangles, right angle pointing up this time. You know that one side of that triangle is 5 and you also know that another side is 3/4 times 5. Both these sides are next to the right angle so you just multiply them with each other and divide by 2 to get the area of that triangle.
      5*(3/4)*5
      =5*(15/4)
      =75/4
      (75/4)/2=75/8
      Then subtract that from 100 (the whole shaded area).
      100-(75/8)
      =(800/8)-(75/8)
      =725/8

  • @gr33n5murf
    @gr33n5murf Год назад +1

    In middle Egypt they knew "the area of a square of 100 is equal to that of two smaller squares. The side of one is ½ + ¼ the side of the other."
    I thought it interesting the shaded areas is 100 and you got b=3/4a on your working

    • @gr33n5murf
      @gr33n5murf Год назад +1

      So, knowing this here's another way of solving once you know the scale factor is 4 and have worked out the bottom left triangle:
      You know the length given is 13, you also know the small triangle at the bottom left hand corner is 3,4,5. So the length of the side of the black square is 16. So because we now know the length is 16, that means the side opposite it is also 16. So 3/4 of 16 is 12 which means the other side of the triangle is length 12. 12^2 plus 16^2 is 400. Divide 400 by 4(the scale factor) and you get 100. because 3,4,5 is also equivalent to 6,8,10 and therefore 12,16,20 then you now know the hypotenuse of the triangle on the right is 20 and the hypotenuse can be divide into 4 lengths, 20/4 is 5 which gives you the hypotenuse of the bottom left triangle and then you get the areas of 25 for one square. Then you go 25*4 which is 100. which proves the Egyptians were right about a side being 3/4 the length of another

  • @TheTallRaver
    @TheTallRaver Год назад

    Cool!👍👍

  • @seohix
    @seohix Год назад

    What if I wanted the area inside the original square box?

  • @AbhirupDutta-zm7pd
    @AbhirupDutta-zm7pd 3 месяца назад

    This math guy has 3.14 lakh subscribers....... This sounds like pi..... Quite unique math lover

  • @HERKELMERKEL
    @HERKELMERKEL Год назад

    when i see a colorful handmade drawing, i can instantly see that is a Catriona Agg question.. bc nobody redraw the question digitally .. dont know why tho :))))

  • @Tahsin_Jawad
    @Tahsin_Jawad 11 месяцев назад

    How exciting!?

  • @Cyco-Dude
    @Cyco-Dude 11 месяцев назад

    Exciting.

  • @haniallelli94
    @haniallelli94 9 месяцев назад

    Lat step is pythagorus
    That’s what you should’ve said

  • @dynamic_pointer_cast
    @dynamic_pointer_cast 7 месяцев назад

    The angles are very tricky.

  • @grqfes
    @grqfes Год назад

    i thought you had to cut it off at the top

  • @Chaosbringer77
    @Chaosbringer77 9 месяцев назад

    Sorry wait how do you mathematically prove that both triangles angles are equivalent

    • @glenn4919
      @glenn4919 8 месяцев назад +1

      They have a shared angle and a 90° angle. The third angle would have to be the same. Duh!

  • @Musamohjoo
    @Musamohjoo Год назад

    it would be great if you had a discord server we would love to join

  • @nabil4389
    @nabil4389 Год назад +1

    How exciting

  • @BeltMethodUser
    @BeltMethodUser Год назад

    Please make a desmos music tutorial, i cant find any

  • @HalidKoç-v3c
    @HalidKoç-v3c 15 дней назад

    why bro close this much the ceiling

  • @aalekhjain2682
    @aalekhjain2682 Год назад

    Scale factor? Whats that? Anyone help

  • @yzScott
    @yzScott 10 месяцев назад

    I thought this was going to be working out the area of ummmm.... on "No Love Deep Web"

  • @AndrewPRoberts
    @AndrewPRoberts Год назад

    Me to my neighbors kids: this looks important, let's put a box around it

  • @tylermcnally8232
    @tylermcnally8232 Год назад

    I just use a ruler.

  • @f66685
    @f66685 10 месяцев назад

    Nice

  • @sky-zo2ml
    @sky-zo2ml Год назад

    always more geometry!!!

  • @Try95th
    @Try95th 6 дней назад

    💯

  • @energyeve2152
    @energyeve2152 4 месяца назад

    Dang, I’ve spent like 50 minutes already and I’m only 12 seconds into the video.

  • @MineKynoMine
    @MineKynoMine Год назад

    I feel like you skipped a step by assuming that the outer shape was a square

    • @mrTii
      @mrTii Год назад +2

      The problem states that there are five squares. That means the outer shape is a square.

  • @ziaahmad8738
    @ziaahmad8738 Год назад

    i dont get it but looks cool

  • @robinlatal7021
    @robinlatal7021 11 месяцев назад

    Bravo

  • @DaBruhMe
    @DaBruhMe Год назад +7

    &E,
    AND E,
    ANDY
    ...
    How exciting

  • @energyeve2152
    @energyeve2152 4 месяца назад

    I did all the right steps but I didn’t do it as simple…

  • @QuinnHarley6304
    @QuinnHarley6304 Год назад

    🎉

  • @KI5DDO
    @KI5DDO Год назад

    Follow up question.. is there enough info to solve for the red shaded area that’s within the square? 75 plus what sq units?

    • @pprav987
      @pprav987 Год назад

      Would it be 96.625. By using the same method the top left triangle is also similar and we can do the area of the square minus the area of all of the triangles.

  • @Monitorbread
    @Monitorbread Год назад

    nice

  • @srujang.s6651
    @srujang.s6651 6 месяцев назад

    Wow.

  • @farshidyazdaani9021
    @farshidyazdaani9021 Год назад

    👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍