From James Bond in The Facts of Death:
Romanos the villain: "... A man of your expertise has probably disarmed hundreds of bombs, haven'y you? Surly you can stop a Pershing missile from launching? Do you see this panel? Inside are the launching controls, covered by a thin glass cover that serves as a safeguard...They will go off if that glass cover is broken without following a certain procedure. You must deactivate the alarm system to get to the controls... I've written down a puzzle and its answer will tell you how to disarm the alarm system. As you can see, there is no calculator, paper or instruments anywhere to help you..."
Here was the riddle.
Pythagoras was famous for his theorem that states that in a right triangle, the sum of the squares of the legs is equal to the sqyare of the hupotenuse. The Converse is also true...
Lets say that you have sides of lengths 17, 144 and 163. Does this form an acute, right, or obtuse triangle?
Pull off the red wire if your answer is "Acute."
Pull off the blue wire if your answer is "Right."
Pull off the white wire if your answer is "Obtuse."
You have 2 minutes, good luck.
We all know Bond never dies, so what did Bond do?
2007-03-28 08:49:15 · 12 answers · asked by sprinting_turtle 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Jokes & Riddles
He gets the hell outa there! The sides don't form any kind of triangle whatsoever - at least not in real Euclidean space!
2007-03-28 08:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by Always Hopeful 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
163 squared is 26569
144 squared is 20736
17 squared is 289
26569 > 20736 + 289
Therefore, the hypotenuse is longer than it would be for a right triangle, and thus would force the angle formed by the two shorter sides to be more than 90 degrees. This would make it an obtuse triangle.
Cut the white wire.
2007-03-28 10:24:44 · answer #2 · answered by buckeye_brew_guy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White Wire... because all of the sides are different lengths.
2007-03-28 08:54:27 · answer #3 · answered by :::Christina:::: 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obtuse- White Wire
I know I changed it but then i re-read it and saw you ment the triangle not the angles.
2007-03-28 08:52:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He pulled off the blue wire cause it's the "right" one!!
2007-03-28 08:52:40 · answer #5 · answered by Doll 101 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ha. that's a good one. i actually tried calculating it. the answer in none of the above. the two smaller sides do not add up to the one longer side meaning that you can not have a triangle with those measurements.
that was a good one. 10/10
2007-03-28 09:03:27 · answer #6 · answered by curiostiy18835 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
pull the white wire
2007-03-28 08:53:33 · answer #7 · answered by drmmr5 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pulled the blue wire.
2007-03-28 08:56:52 · answer #8 · answered by urmomrulez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Ricky D. That ain't no triangle...
2007-03-28 09:00:49 · answer #9 · answered by ntemp01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
acute
2007-03-28 09:04:34 · answer #10 · answered by modah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋