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Find the next two lines of this triangle!

A little something my teacher asked me to solve a couple of weeks ago. The aim is to find the next two lines of the triangle. Its quite interesting and definetely made me think.

And the first person to do this will recieve the beloved rep tomorrow.
Enjoy!!

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Reply 1

Andylol

What the hell are you on about?

Reply 2

around

pimping triangle there

Reply 3

explosions hurt

Do we have to be on acid to work it out?

Reply 4

zafaru123

damn...the attatchement didn't work

Reply 5

aphirst

I'm stuck working out the first line... O.o

Reply 6

stevencarrwork

zafaru123

A little something my teacher asked me to solve a couple of weeks ago.

Can't your teacher solve the problems himself without getting others to solve them?

Reply 7

stevencarrwork

aphirst

I'm stuck working out the first line... O.o

I think you have to use imaginary numbers to solve imaginary problems.

Reply 8

zafaru123

lol...firstly, the acid is not required...and i don't why she asked me...but only one teacher in our whole maths department got it

Reply 9

Roxanda

this: triangle
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Triangle-acute.svg/460px-Triangle-acute.svg.png

this: not a triangle

Reply 10

zafaru123

its triangle-shaped :smile:

Spoiler

If it's "triangle shaped" and we have to find the "next two lines"..... wtf are we meant to be doing? :p:

Reply 13

zafaru123

tommm

Spoiler

and we have a winner...you solved it a minute quicker then me lol...will rep you tomorrow.

Reply 14

zafaru123

heflob

1/7 1/42 1/210 1/840 1/210 1/42 1/7

1/8 1/56 1/336 1/1680 1/1680 1/336 1/56 1/8

As far as I can tell

Did I win? :tongue:

the outer bits are correct, but not the inner ones

Reply 15

stevencarrwork

The 1/30 looked pretty random to me. I suppose there is a pattern?

Reply 16

zafaru123

may i ask tomm...what method did you use

Reply 17

qgujxj39

If you can't spot the pattern:

Spoiler

Reply 18

zafaru123

yes theres a pattern, take the first two lines for example. 1/2 add a 1/2=1/1. the number above of them. so 1/3 add a 1/6=1/2 (the number above the two fractions)