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Pentagon Partitions (Posted on 2016-12-11) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Find a way to partition a square into convex pentagons.

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Solution Symmetry preserving solution. Comment 3 of 3 |
Trisect each side of the square.  Put a 'house' shape pointing in for the center of each side.  Each corner pentagon is a square with part of a corner lopped off.  

This leaves a block letter x in the center that is divided into four more houses.



  Posted by Jer on 2016-12-13 10:24:57
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