Today Puzzle #703
Puzzle No. 703鈥� Wednesday 25 March 2020
John, Paul, George and Ringo don't want to hold each other's hands, so they each stand so that they are exactly 2 metres from the other three. If you drew straight lines from each Beatle to every other Beatle, what shape would be formed?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by Kyle D Evans is an award-winning maths communicator and head of maths and computer science at Barton Peveril College.
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A tetrahedron, or triangular-based pyramid. Three Beatles is easy to visualise - an equilateral triangle. Placing a fourth point that is equidistant from the first three points requires moving into the third dimension. Luckily there were only four Beatles.
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