The ancient Greeks believed that the most visually pleasing rectangles were those…
MATHEMATICS · Subjective · A Level · Mathematics · Algebra and Functions · Algebra and Functions
Problem
The ancient Greeks believed that the most visually pleasing rectangles were those whose length, ℓ, and width, w, satisfied the equation ℓℓ+w=wℓ. Find ℓ/w. (This ratio is called the Golden ratio, and it appears in mathematics in many surprising places.)