Comments on: World’s Hardest Easy Geometry Problem

By: mohamed

mohamed — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:14:46 +0000

please someone send me the answer and how they find it it took me 5 hours and i get nothing send it plz send it to rashedct@hotmail.com

By: Jace

Jace — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:53:34 +0000

1 minute... it was not hard at all. x=20. im a sophomore in high school. I dont know why everyone thinks it is so hard

By: LoomingLoomer

LoomingLoomer — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:57:54 +0000

I am 10, and this is not so hard, but it took me 1 hour, and my answer is 20 degrees.

By: Rajit

Rajit — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:27:22 +0000

x=20, took about 15 min.

By: Rajit

Rajit — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:26:45 +0000

x=20, took about 15 min.

By: Mike Coffin

Mike Coffin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 03:20:23 +0000

It took me several hours, but that’s ok — I did it on company time

Follow my link if you’re curious.

By: RC

RC — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:49:43 +0000

Sorry, but x=50′s not right.

By: Corky Boyd

Corky Boyd — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:56:38 +0000

I came up with x=60, angle EDB=70 and the intersection of BD and AE=50. Had to use simultaneous equations to figure x. Didn't look at the clues. Is this correct?

Has been over 50 years since I took geometry.

By: Bryan Pick

Bryan Pick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:42:52 +0000

Err, I didn't originally feel the need to draw HF.

By: Bryan Pick

Bryan Pick — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:19:01 +0000

Lucky I have so much free time. I spent hours on this -- but only used a post-it note and one sheet of printer paper -- and then left it to sleep on it, quite sure I was only a step away from the answer but still unhappy.

Turns out I was right, and I felt foolish for not seeing earlier the pair of matched angle measures that led me to the solution. I did it much the same as the linked proof, only without formally writing each step of the proof (and I didn't feel the need to draw line HF, although I drew a few other, extraneous lines). I had even intuited the final answer correctly.