Centers at a Corner
Sketch the area reachable by the midpoint of a line segment of length 1, if its entire length is confined to the first quadrant (x>=0 and y>=0) of a Cartesian plane, and one of its end points must be on the x- or the y- axis.
Grid Colouring
How many ways are there to colour a 3x3 grid using 2 colours such that no rectangle in the grid has the same colour in all 4 corners?
Enclosing the Center
If we randomly select 3 vertices of a regular hexagon to form a triangle, what are the respective probabilities that the center of the hexagon is i) inside, ii) outside, iii) on the edge of the triangle?
Solid Angles
Let’s consider the 3D version of regular planar angles, called solid angles. If an angle can be thought of as a portion of a full circle, then a solid angle is a portion of a full sphere.
Inscribed Perimeters
If a quadrilateral has 1 vertex on each side of a square of side 1, its smallest possible perimeter is 2sqrt2.
Distances to Vertices
In the square below, points that are closer to the center than one of the vertices is coloured yellow. The area of the yellow region is 1/2 of the area of the square.
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.
Sierpinski Pyramid
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.
Nonlinear Dots
Here’s a way to put 6 dots into a 3x3 grid such that no 3 dots form a straight line.
Point in a Polygon
For any point inside a square, the sum of the distances from this point to the four sides is half of the perimeter.