Make 3 squares by 9 sticks
Rocky
Here are 9 sticks. Wothout breaking or bending, arrange them so as to
make 3 squares.
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Dennis Yelle
Give away hint:
Well, I would, but it is too hard
for me to draw it on this 2D screen.
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den...@netcom.com (Dennis Yelle)
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Al
> Here are 9 sticks. Wothout breaking or bending, arrange them so as to
> make 3 squares.
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The answer as follows:Take four sticks and place them flat forming your first
square as shown bellow
A ------C----B
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D ------F----E
The second step is to take two sticks and place them on point A and B and
they must join at point C.Do the same for point D and E and F where the sticks
join at point F.ABC and DEF is a triangle ,use the last stick to join C and F
therefore basically forming a roof top.
A side view is as follows:
F
D E
with stick from D to E and E to F and F to D.
The first square is your original one being square ABDE,the second is ACDF and
the third is BCEF.ACDF and BCEF is basically the roof tops.
Regards Alan
Use matches for this experiment
Tim Firman
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I didn't cross any sticks, else you could use even fewer sticks...
Tim
Rocky
Tim Firman <firman> wrote:
Folks,
Hints: NO 3D
3 SQUARES HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL
HAVE TO USE 9 STICKS ONLY (NO 8 STICKS BLA-BLA-BLA)
IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTION, PLEASE EMAIL TO ME.
GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-ROCKY
Tom Magliery
> Tim Firman <firman> wrote:
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> >I didn't cross any sticks, else you could use even fewer sticks...
> > Tim
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> Folks,
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> Hints: NO 3D
> 3 SQUARES HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL
> HAVE TO USE 9 STICKS ONLY (NO 8 STICKS BLA-BLA-BLA)
ok, here, i've used the 9th stick. would you like to become more
exasperated with us now? :-)
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mag
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Rocky
den...@netcom.com (Dennis Yelle) wrote:
>In article <4u7t8a$5...@Nntp1.mcs.net> f...@mcs.com (Rocky) writes:
>>Here are 9 sticks. Wothout breaking or bending, arrange them so as to
>>make 3 squares.
>> _____ _____
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>>| | |
>>|____ _|_____|
>>| |
>>| |
>>| |
>Give away hint:
>
>Well, I would, but it is too hard
>for me to draw it on this 2D screen.
>--
>den...@netcom.com (Dennis Yelle)
>"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Dennis, appreciate your try. But it has to be in a same plane, NO 3D.
- Rocky
James R Yingst
In article <4udd3h$4...@nntp1.mcs.net>, Rocky <f...@mcs.com> wrote:
>Tim Firman <firman> wrote:
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>> ______ <--- unused ninth stick
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>>I didn't cross any sticks, else you could use even fewer sticks...
>> Tim
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>Folks,
>
>Hints: NO 3D
> 3 SQUARES HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL
> HAVE TO USE 9 STICKS ONLY (NO 8 STICKS BLA-BLA-BLA)
Those aren't hints, those are rules you forgot to mention. :-)
Well, if for some reason we have to waste a stick and make it look like
it's doing something useful, here's a 9-stick solution:
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Jim Yingst
yin...@u.arizona.edu
Rocky
pdir...@aol.com (P DiRico 7) wrote:
>Easy.
>A B C D E
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>* * * * *
>* * * * *
>* * * * *
>* * * * *
>* * * * *
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>F G H I J
>The squares are (points are clockwise from the upper left)
>a-c-h-f
>b-d-i-g
>c-e-j-h
Congratulation! You got the answer.
-Rocky
Abigail
Rocky (f...@mcs.com) wrote:
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That's of course using only 8 sticks.
Abigail -- 5 squares with 6 sticks is easy too.
Karl Pritchard
f...@mcs.com (Rocky) wrote:
>Here are 9 sticks. Wothout breaking or bending, arrange them so as to
>make 3 squares.
>_____ _____
>| | |
>| | |
>|_____|_____|
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If we're allowed to think in the third dimension, this works:
form a square on a flat surface.
stand 3 sticks vertically on 3 of the corners.
lay the remaining 2 sticks across the tops of the 3 verticals.
this will look like a floor and 2 adjoining walls having a common
corner. It will also look like 3 squares.
P DiRico 7
Rob Hegge
In article <4uei57$g...@news.ccit.arizona.edu>, yin...@bonaire.ccit.arizona.edu (James R Yingst) writes:
>In article <4udd3h$4...@nntp1.mcs.net>, Rocky <f...@mcs.com> wrote:
>>Tim Firman <firman> wrote:
>>
>>Hints: NO 3D
>> 3 SQUARES HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL
>> HAVE TO USE 9 STICKS ONLY (NO 8 STICKS BLA-BLA-BLA)
>
>Those aren't hints, those are rules you forgot to mention. :-)
>
>Well, if for some reason we have to waste a stick and make it look like
>it's doing something useful, here's a 9-stick solution:
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>Jim Yingst
>yin...@u.arizona.edu
Another 9 stick solution:
hight 1 stick, width 2 sticks
|<...>| = length of 1 stick
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Rob Hegge
Paul Filseth
f...@mcs.com (Rocky) wrote:
>Here are 9 sticks. Without breaking or bending, arrange them so as to
>make 3 squares.
> _____ _____
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>|_____|_____|
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and later added the constraints:
> NO 3D
> 3 SQUARES HAVE TO BE IDENTICAL
> HAVE TO USE 9 STICKS ONLY (NO 8 STICKS BLA-BLA-BLA)
Spoiler:
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4 is the square of 2.
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