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Cinq Carve (Posted on 2014-04-25)

Consider a rectangular piece of paper ABCD with AB ≠ AD

Show how you can fold this piece of paper into five pieces of equal area.

*** Using any given instrument like straightedge, compass, protractor, ruler etc. is NOT permissible.

Submitted by K Sengupta

Rating: 4.5000 (2 votes)

Solution: (Hide)

Please refer to the solution submitted by Jer in this location.

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Subject	Author	Date
re: New, simpler solution.	Steve Herman	2014-04-27 09:23:28
New, simpler solution.	Jer	2014-04-27 01:21:40
re(4): a solution - clarifying	Jer	2014-04-27 01:00:39
re(3): a solution	Steve Herman	2014-04-26 23:09:05
re(2): a solution	Jer	2014-04-26 18:26:00
re: a solution	Steve Herman	2014-04-26 11:50:19
a solution	Jer	2014-04-26 11:28:00

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