Try to solve the problem that became the great challenge of the Internet

They say that on the door where Plato taught his students there was the following sentence: “No one enters here who does not know geometry”. We all need to learn some of this science in school, but do we learn enough? Recently, a geometry problem has the Internet completely freaked out.

we, from awesome.club, we never believed that counting triangles in an image would be so complicated. Apparently we were wrong.

It all started with Australian @thomas_violence who posted on his Twitter account a simple math problem that not only generated a lot of difficulties in everyone, but also a huge controversy.

“I’m recovering from a hangover with the absolute certainty that people respond the wrong way to this post”

People’s responses left the author perplexed. He received all kinds of responses, ranging from 5 to 25 triangles. Thomas started posting the funniest answers on his Twitter, surprised at the controversy that a simple problem could cause.

Well, jokes aside, how many triangles did you count in the image?

Finally, a girl named @ProphetOfFlame not only did he count the correct amount, he also illustrated the answer on his Twitter account.

As we can see, they are 18 triangles complete. But of course, that hasn’t stopped some users from finding some more. Apparently, they counted the trapezoids as triangles. The most common answers ranged from 12 to 15 triangles.

If the previous problem seemed easy, let’s complicate things a little more. How many triangles do you see here?

How many triangles are there in the image?

In the drawing there are 24 triangles. In the top row there are 6 triangles: 3 singles, 2 doubles and 1 triple. Using the same strategy, it is possible to find 6 triangles in the second, third and fourth rows.

It turns out that the author of the image, Kumar Ankit, hid another small triangle in his signature. So the correct answer is: 25 triangles. Some users even said that it is necessary to include the word ‘triangles’ (triangles), making the answer 26.

Tell us: how many triangles did you find in each image?