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If you have 12 sticks the same size, how do you make them into 8 squares?



Hi,

With sticks of length 1,

  1. make a square of size 1 (4 sticks)



    One square of side 1.

  2. shift it 1/3 units east and 1/3 units north (4 more sticks).



    Two squares of side 1 and one square of side  2/3

  3. Can yo see what to do next?

Claude

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