Wednesday 30 March 2011

Math Qn on Black and White hexagonal tiles

This is posted by LL♪♫. The following is a question from cbox: A very large floor is tiled with black and white regular hexagonal tiles. Each black tile is surrounded by 6 white tiles and each white tile is surrounded by 3 white tiles and 3 black tiles. Find the approximate ratio of the number of black tiles to the number of white tiles. Solution is below: The picture above is self-explanatory. The approx. ratio of the number of black tiles to the number of white tiles is 1:2.

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