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**Reach** · 09-1-2006, 06:17 PM

Second one can't be right.

However, I just got home from work and there's no way I'm figuring out the correct answer right now XDXD

Here are two good math problems.

1)

Several straight line segments are drawn on a plane surface in such a way that their intersecting lines form 1,597 areas that are not further subdivided. What is the minimum number of line segments that must be drawn to form the described pattern?

2) 1 + 10^1,234,567,890 triangles are drawn on a plane surface. What is the maximum number of areas, not further subdivided, that can be formed as these triangles intersect each other?

09-1-2006, 06:17 PM	#3
Reach FFR Simfile Author Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Canada Age: 39 Posts: 7,471	Re: Creative Problem Solving Second one can't be right. However, I just got home from work and there's no way I'm figuring out the correct answer right now XDXD Here are two good math problems. 1) Several straight line segments are drawn on a plane surface in such a way that their intersecting lines form 1,597 areas that are not further subdivided. What is the minimum number of line segments that must be drawn to form the described pattern? 2) 1 + 10^1,234,567,890 triangles are drawn on a plane surface. What is the maximum number of areas, not further subdivided, that can be formed as these triangles intersect each other? __________________ Last edited by Reach; 09-1-2006 at 06:21 PM..