/lit/ - Literature

>>15824465
what? I didn't give the answer. I was pointing out why the problem is appropriate for tenth graders and why its pathetic that /lit/ can't do it. its not supposed to be complicated or counter intuitive. its really simple. I know what the answer is, and yours is wrong, mathematically illiterate retard. You should be able to immediately tell your answer is wrong because of the symmetry of the problem. the answer must lie on the diagonal on the top face that, if looking straight down, would intersect both A and B. pic related is the real answer, brainlet.

>>15757340
>>15756974
tooks some time to make a shitty drawing. if you can model the problem, it really it 10th grade math and takes 2 seconds. just algebra with polynomals. the square terms even cancel out.

let a and b be the distances of paths a and b

a = sqrt(x^2 + (2+x)^2)

b = sqrt((1+x)^2 + (2+1-x)^2)

set them equal to eachother and square both sides, then simply solve for x.

x^2 + (2+x)^2 = (1+x)^2 + (2+1-x)^2
x^2 + 4+4x+x^2 = 1+2x+x^2 + 9-6x+x^2
2x^2 + 4x + 4 = 2x^2 - 4x + 10
8x = 6
x = 6/8 = 3/4 = 0.75

The distance to the point is then sqrt(8.125), or 2.85