Saturday, October 17, 2009

18 Matchsticks Question - Challenging Maths Question

18 Matchstick Question

- posted by kkhing on www.1800-teacher.com





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Possible Solution :

Move 2 (Dotted) Red Lines Match sticks to 2 (Solid) Red Lines.


You'll get 3 Small Squares, and 1 Big Square.

You'll have 2 more 'hanging match sticks' in the Big Square.


Anyone else have better solution, to what the question wanted?

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1 comment:

  1. take out 4 halfs of the center matches and then place them where the solid red lines are shown above, it works if you're only interested in the perimeter.

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