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?

(In reply to Out Of The Box -> It Is A Box by owl)

LOL!!
I like your interpretation!
It adds another  ..  dimension to the problem.

However, I doubt that could "butter up" McWorter for acceptance:-(

luv it.

Posted by brianjn on 2005-08-17 12:22:30