Can you solve this puzzle for a STEEM prize?

in puzzle •  7 years ago  (edited)

If you draw one straight line and you are now not aloud the edit or touch the line (so no putting another line on the end of it) how do you make the line longer?

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Take a look at this line at more sharp angle of view

Bring it closer to you

Draw a shorter line next to it, and it will become the longer line

I agree with your answer, I think you said it correctly

Zoom it!

Pretty sure @pssf84 has it right.

@pandasquad can you go back to your math problem and give proper answers now since it's been a few days?

Yeah when I went through it after it was very confusing.

The difference I found with you Family A answer was finding out how old the GP was. Which comes from the statement ' The youngest grandparent is half the age of the oldest grandchild older than the oldest parent' Half the age of the oldest grandchild is 17.5 add that to oldest parent (45) makes it 62.5. That lead to you being out. As for B I need to look through more but one third of 87 is exactly 29 though so maybe some rounding errors for you made it more confusing.

Here are my A solutions:
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Sorry for my messy work I was going to type it up in a few days.

And B solution:
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Ahh. I misread the grandparent age thing. Whoops. Would explain the answer not sounding right in my head.

I'm not surprised I got confused reading it and I wrote it :P

with zoom

all this for less than 1/2 penny?
no, I pass.
Anyways - the answer is:
heat the medium and it will expand - and the line will be longer.
QED.

Draw a shorter line close to it

Well done @pssf84 your the winner! Rewards have now been paid!