The squares are all the same size. What’s the angle?
Solution by Trigonometry
With the points labelled as above, triangle is a right-angled triangle with twice the length of and so is half an equilateral triangle. This means that is also half an equilateral triangle, so if is the length of the side of one square, has length and has length . Then has length and has length . The tangent of angle is therefore:
So to decimal places, angle is:
Created on August 10, 2021 23:08:49
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Andrew Stacey