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January-February 2009, Puzzle nr 120
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Puzzle # 120 Difficulty level: bulbbulb, general math knowledge.

cheese puzzle

Geometric mouse
  
Help Thymoty the small mouse to cut the 3-centimeter thick piece of cheese depicted above into 4 CONGRUENT pieces, so that they can pass through the 5x5-centimeter mouse hole (don’t mind the thickness of the wall).

Keywords: geometric dissections.

Related puzzles:
- Squared!
- Red Monad.


Source of the puzzle:
BrainTrainer, issue #12. © G. Sarcone.
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solution

There are several solutions to this dissection puzzle, the one shown below is perhaps the simplest and most elegant.

solution 1

solution 1

And here is a variant by G. S. Amaresh:
solution 1

 

cup winnerThe Winner of the Puzzle of the Month is:
Amaresh G. S., India indian flag

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More Math Facts behind the puzzle

secant tangent theorem 2The math puzzle above is inspired from a very old puzzle called the "four knights problem". The puzzle's challenge is to cut the chessboard shown opposite into 4 congruent parts, each with a knight on it.

Source: "The Moscow Puzzles" by Boris A. Kordemsky.

 



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