Chord-bisecting Chords
A circle of radius 5 has chord AB with length 6. A second chord is drawn here and is bisected by AB.
A circle of radius 5 has chord AB with length 6. A second chord is drawn here and is bisected by AB.
Let’s remove the central portion of a regular tetrahedron such that what remains are 4 tetrahedrons each with half of the side length of the original.
Here’s a way to put 6 dots into a 3x3 grid such that no 3 dots form a straight line.
For any point inside a square, the sum of the distances from this point to the four sides is half of the perimeter.
Let’s draw a smaller square inside a unit square by dividing out a fixed fraction of each side and connecting the dividing point to an opposite angle.
Imagine instead of a two dimensional grid, we are now filling a 3D grid made up of nxnxn unit cubes with numbers 1 to n such that every row, column, and depth has exactly one of each number.
This problem is inspired by this geometry puzzle on Twitter. The original problem asks to find the ratio between two equilateral triangles fitted into a square. Let’s generalize it.
Let’s define polycubes as three dimensional shapes made up of unit cubes connected by shared faces.
We want to flatten the outer shell of a cube without tearing or stretching the surface.
For all questions in this problem, let’s ignore the effects of gravity, which means higher unit cubes can float in space without lower unit cubes to support them.