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Make four equilateral triangles (Posted on 2002-03-28) Difficulty: 2 of 5
An equilatteral triangle is a triangle in which all three sides have the same length. How can one arrange six equal-length match sticks so that the result contains four equilatteral triangles?

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Re: Solution | Comment 2 of 10 |
Wow, this is actually an ingenious solution! The "standard one" is to make a 3d pyramid, but you have come up with a way to do this in a plane.

Way to go!
  Posted by levik on 2002-05-08 20:27:11
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