Found problems: 27
Given a square sheet of paper with side $1$. Measure on this sheet a distance of $ 5/6$. (The sheet can be folded, including, along any segment with ends at the edges of the paper and unbend back, after unfolding, a trace of the fold line remains on the paper).
Some squares of the infinite sheet of cross-lined paper are red. Each $2\times 3$ rectangle (of $6$ squares) contains exactly two red squares. How many red squares can be in the $9\times 11$ rectangle of $99$ squares?
a) Fold a $10 \times 10$ square from a $1 \times 118$ rectangular strip.
b) Fold a $10 \times 10$ square from a $1 \times (100+9\sqrt3)$ rectangular strip (approximately $1\times 115.58$).
The strip can be bent, but not torn.
Peter made a paper rectangle, put it on an identical rectangle and pasted both rectangles along their perimeters. Then he cut the upper rectangle along one of its diagonals and along the perpendiculars to this diagonal from two remaining
vertices. After this he turned back the obtained triangles in such a way that they, along with the lower rectangle form a new rectangle.
Let this new rectangle be given. Restore the original rectangle using compass and ruler.
There is a square sheet of paper. How to get a rectangular sheet of paper with an aspect ratio equal to $\sqrt2$? (There are no tools, the sheet can only be bent.)
A rectangular sheet of paper (white on one side and gray on the other) was folded three times, as shown in the figure:
Rectangle $1$, which was white after the first fold, has $20$ cm more perimeter than rectangle $2$, which was white after the second fold, and this in turn has $16$ cm more perimeter than rectangle $3$, which was white after the third fold. Determine the area of the sheet.
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A rectangle of paper of $3$ cm by $9$ cm is folded along a straight line, making two opposite vertices coincide. In this way a pentagon is formed. Calculate it's area.
Matías has a rectangular sheet of paper $ABCD$, with $AB<AD$.Initially, he folds the sheet along a straight line $AE$, where $E$ is a point on the side $DC$ , so that vertex $D$ is located on side $BC$, as shown in the figure. Then folds the sheet again along a straight line $AF$, where $F$ is a point on side $BC$, so that vertex $B$ lies on the line $AE$; and finally folds the sheet along the line $EF$. Matías observed that the vertices $B$ and $C$ were located on the same point of segment $AE$ after making the folds. Calculate the measure of the angle $\angle DAE$.
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You have to divide a square paper into three parts, by two straight cuts, so that by locating these parts properly, without gaps or overlaps, an obtuse triangle is formed. Indicate how to cut the square and how to assemble the triangle with the three parts.
You have an equilateral paper triangle of area $9$ and fold it in two, following a straight line that passes through the center of the triangle and does not contain any vertex of the triangle. Thus there remains a quadrilateral in which the two pieces overlap, and three triangles without overlaps. Determine the smallest possible value of the quadrilateral area of the overlay.
From a paper quadrilateral like the one in the figure, you have to cut out a new quadrilateral whose area is equal to half the area of the original quadrilateral.You can only bend one or more times and cut by some of the lines of the folds. Describe the folds and cuts and justify that the area is half.
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You have a paper pentagon, $ABCDE$, such that $AB = BC = 3$ cm, $CD = DE= 5$ cm, $EA = 4$ cm, $\angle ABC = 100^o$ ,$ \angle CDE = 80^o$. You have to divide the pentagon into four triangles, by three straight cuts, so that with the four triangles assemble a rectangle, without gaps or overlays. (The triangles can be rotated and / or turned around.)
Let $ABCD$ be a square of side paper $10$ and $P$ a point on side $BC$. By folding the paper along the $AP$ line, point $B$ determines the point $Q$, as seen in the figure. The line $PQ$ cuts the side $CD$ at $R$. Calculate the perimeter of the triangle $ PCR$
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The paper folding art origami is usually performed with square sheets of paper. Someone folds the sheet once along a line through the center of the sheet in orde to get a nonagon. Let $p$ be the perimeter of the nonagon minus the length of the fold, i.e. the total length of the eight sides that are not folds, and denote by s the original side length of the square. Express the area of the nonagon in terms of $p$ and $s$.
You have a paper pentagon, $ABCDE$, such that $AB = BC = 3$ cm, $CD = DE= 5$ cm, $EA = 4$ cm, $\angle ABC = 100^o$ ,$ \angle CDE = 80^o$. You have to divide the pentagon into four triangles, by three straight cuts, so that with the four triangles assemble a rectangle, without gaps or overlays. (The triangles can be rotated and / or turned around.)
From a paper quadrilateral like the one in the figure, you have to cut out a new quadrilateral whose area is equal to half the area of the original quadrilateral.You can only bend one or more times and cut by some of the lines of the folds. Describe the folds and cuts and justify that the area is half.
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Let $ABCD$ be a square of side paper $10$ and $P$ a point on side $BC$. By folding the paper along the $AP$ line, point $B$ determines the point $Q$, as seen in the figure. The line $PQ$ cuts the side $CD$ at $R$. Calculate the perimeter of the triangle $ PCR$
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A rectangular sheet of paper (white on one side and gray on the other) was folded three times, as shown in the figure:
Rectangle $1$, which was white after the first fold, has $20$ cm more perimeter than rectangle $2$, which was white after the second fold, and this in turn has $16$ cm more perimeter than rectangle $3$, which was white after the third fold. Determine the area of the sheet.
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You have to divide a square paper into three parts, by two straight cuts, so that by locating these parts properly, without gaps or overlaps, an obtuse triangle is formed. Indicate how to cut the square and how to assemble the triangle with the three parts.
Three points are marked on the transparent sheet of paper. Prove that the sheet can be folded along some line in such a way that these points form an equilateral triangle.
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There are two paper figures: an equilateral triangle and a rectangle. The height of rectangle is equal to the height of the triangle and the base of the rectangle is equal to the base of the triangle. Divide the triangle into three parts and the rectangle into two, using straight cuts, so that with the five pieces can be assembled, without gaps or overlays, a equilateral triangle. To assemble the figure, each part can be rotated and / or turned around.
Each of two regular polygons $P$ and $Q$ was divided by a line into two parts. One part of $P$ was attached to one part of $Q$ along the dividing line so that the resulting polygon was regular and not congruent to $P$ or $Q$. How many sides can it have?
There are two paper figures: an equilateral triangle and a rectangle. The height of rectangle is equal to the height of the triangle and the base of the rectangle is equal to the base of the triangle. Divide the triangle into three parts and the rectangle into two, using straight cuts, so that with the five pieces can be assembled, without gaps or overlays, a equilateral triangle. To assemble the figure, each part can be rotated and / or turned around.
A rectangle of paper of $3$ cm by $9$ cm is folded along a straight line, making two opposite vertices coincide. In this way a pentagon is formed. Calculate it's area.
Tanya cut out a convex polygon from the paper, fold it several times and obtained a two-layers quadrilateral. Can the cutted polygon be a heptagon?