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The Fur Dresser's Mistake (Posted on 2004-05-28)

A fur dresser had to put a patch shaped like a scalene triangle on a piece of fur. Suddenly he realized he had made a terrible mistake. The patch fitted the hole but the fur side faced the wrong way.

The fur dresser, after some thought, cut the triangular patch into 3 parts, each of which would be unchanged when turned over. How?

See The Solution Submitted by Victor Zapana

Rating: 4.0000 (6 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
Possible Solution?	Ouchy the Klown	2004-06-01 21:36:48
Both Brian Smith's and rixar's work	Jer	2004-05-29 15:53:26
solution?	rixar	2004-05-29 10:53:15
Solution	Brian Smith	2004-05-29 09:45:27
re(3): Half an answer - to FK	SilverKnight	2004-05-28 15:09:48
re(3): Half an answer - to Richard	SilverKnight	2004-05-28 14:59:50
No Subject	Jer	2004-05-28 14:48:08
re(3): Half an answer	Federico Kereki	2004-05-28 14:41:42
re(2): Half an answer	Federico Kereki	2004-05-28 14:39:33
re(2): Half an answer	Richard	2004-05-28 14:34:53
re: Half an answer	SilverKnight	2004-05-28 14:23:09
Half an answer	e.g.	2004-05-28 13:55:25

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