Simple mathematical puzzle...

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A one legged man stands on a Ledge; in his hand is a Wedge. The man falls off the Ledge, loses his Wedge. What happened to it?

 

Answer: It was broken into a "V"

 

How did I come to that conclusion using subtraction and simple geometry?

 

This is a simple puzzle I made up last night...

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Hint: Pay attention to the in-bold letters..

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No solutions yet?

 

It's not as difficult as it seems...

 

It has to do with angles and such

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Well, I really have two guesses, both of which I doubt are correct:

 

a) [hide]The W was broken in half due to the fall. That doesn't have anything to do with geometry and simple algebra though.[/hide]

b) [hide]When you said it was about angles, the only thing I could think of was that in a W, the three angles look like they're 45°(and I'm not sure they are), and the angle in L is 90°. 3*45° - 90° = 45°, which is the angle in one V.[/hide]

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Well, I really have two guesses, both of which I doubt are correct:

 

a) [hide]The W was broken in half due to the fall. That doesn't have anything to do with geometry and simple algebra though.[/hide]

b) [hide]When you said it was about angles, the only thing I could think of was that in a W, the three angles look like they're 45°(and I'm not sure they are), and the angle in L is 90°. 3*45° - 90° = 45°, which is the angle in one V.[/hide]

 

Your answers could be deemed sufficient. The answer I had was a tad different though. Since I am limited on time currently I will have to abstain from providing the full answer right now. I will make it my goal to give an extended answer to this riddle ASAP.

 

Cheers

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*SPOILER ALERT*

I had to dig through a bunch of my old notes for this..

 

Okay so there are 4 lines in the Letter 'W'. There are 2 lines in the letter 'L'.

 

^ Geometry

 

Subtract 2 from 4 and you get 2.

 

^ Subtraction

 

'Broken' constitutes subtraction. 2 lines pieced together can form a 'V'.

 

Pretty simple when you think about it. There was some other weird things I noticed about the angles but I can't remember any of that right now.