Similar to: Unlucky tiling: Arrange thirteen right isosceles triangles into a square
Two difficult "Seventeen right isosceles triangles into a square" tilings
V.hard problem, 20 right isosceles triangles into a square
Each tiling has only one solution, the smaller lists will be easier but all should be possible by hand, computers allowed.
The five challenges are to arrange 7,13,14,15,16 right isosceles triangles of the listed areas into a square of area 882 with no gaps or overlaps. The square has a diagonal of length 42.
7: 9,18,36,72,144,162,441
13: 16,18,25,32,36,50,64,72,81,98,100,128,162
14: 1,2,4,8,9,16,18,25,32,36,64,98,128,441
15: 1,2,4,8,16,25,32,36,50,64,72,98,121,128,225
16: 1,2,4,8,16,18,25,32,49,50,64,81,98,128,144,162
The answer tick will be given to whomever posts the greatest number of "placed triangles" in completed puzzles first. In the unlikely event of a tie, the solver that got the highest scoring single puzzle wins.
By way of illustration/clarification, here are the right isosceles triangles of area
1,2,4,9,16,18,50
arranged into a 10×10 square:
Answer
Here are the solutions to the five problems.
I was able to find by hand the first three solutions. The first one, in particular, can be downsized by a factor of 3 in all dimensions to simplify work. The last two I used PolySolver to help. The general methodology is to stack several triangles, often doubling in area, together.
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