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Square of Triangles (Posted on 2006-02-04) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Given a partition of a square into n triangles of equal area, prove that n is even.

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My thoughts Comment 21 of 21 |

When n = 3, we can only have 2 angles in any given corner of the square. Otherwise, we would end up with a kite in the opposite corner, or 1 triangle would take up half of the square.


  Posted by Justin on 2006-02-06 10:44:04
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