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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Popsicle sticks
You have gathered 22 Popsicle sticks. How can you use them to mark a rectangle of the largest area, without breaking the sticks?
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4 comments:
a 10 X 1 rectangle
This will produce a rectangle with an area of 10 square sticks. You can do better than that with a different sticks arrangement.
5x6 = 30 square sticks
Funny, how you can get three times more in "land" by changing the arrangement of sticks.
This is similar to the "Inheritance" puzzle http://themathmompuzzles.blogspot.com/2009/05/inheritance.html
Please reveal your name, so we will count you in the list on the right. And the rest of the readers will know whom to contact when they have inheritance problems.
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