While buttering my bread at lunch one day I mused that one can not only cut a square pat of butter in half with only a knife, but also if the pat is in the shape of a regular n-gon, n>3. But what if the pat is shaped like an irregular quadrilateral?
Can you bisect the area of an arbitrary quadrilateral with one straight line using only a straightedge and a compass?
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re: Solution by McWorter)
Ok, Your equation is correct and mine is wrong. Only need now a straightedge-compass construction of the square root of a given number(length). I must admit, I don't yet know how to do this.
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Posted by McWorter
on 2005-08-16 22:56:59 |
re(2): Solution -- You're right; I'm wrong
