In creating a golden spiral, if your original golden rectangle rectangle measures 15 by 24.3

Question

a) What would be the dimensions of the first square that you would cut off from the golden rectangle? Give both the length and width.


b) What would be the dimensions of your second square to be cut off? Give both the length and width

Answer 1

The square "cut off" has sides equal to the width of the original rectangle. In the given rectangle this is 15.

The new rectangle is 15 x 9.3.

The second square would be 9.3 x 9.3