Boy Mow Chau's answer to Sin Wei Chuen's Junior College 2 H2 Maths Singapore question.

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Boy Mow Chau
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Boy Mow Chau
Boy Mow Chau
4 years ago
answer ...
(i) 1620 rectangles
(ii) 608 triangles
Sin Wei Chuen
Sin Wei Chuen
4 years ago
is there any possibility of double counting the triangles? because the ans given to me is 544 (or my given ans could be wrong).

Edit for clarification: Rectangles are correct.
Boy Mow Chau
Boy Mow Chau
4 years ago
you are right! some of the triangles have been double-counted. smart of you to have reasoned that the difference is due to double counting. sorry that i missed it earlier.

to account for the overlaps, we add as follows ...

case 5. triangles with base 8, height 4, base vertical, vertex above base, and 1 of the other 2 side is vertical
no of ways = 6 x 1 x 1 x 2 = 12
[case 5 accounts for overlap of cases 1 & 4]

case 6. triangles with base 4, height 8, base vertical, vertex above base, and 1 of the other 2 side is vertical
no of triangles = 2 x 5 x 1 x 2 = 20
[case 6 accounts for overlap of cases 2 & 3]

total ways = (54+100+90+60-12-20) x 2
= 544

thanks for highlighting the mistake ...
Sin Wei Chuen
Sin Wei Chuen
4 years ago
Sorry haven’t been checking ans. how does it look like to have base vertical and vertex above base? or is vertex left or right of base?