Today Puzzle #573
Puzzle No. 573鈥� Monday 23 September
Can an equilateral triangle be covered by two smaller equilateral triangles?
Today’s #PuzzleFortoday has been set by School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.
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The longest segment in an equilateral triangle is one of the sides. So a smaller triangle will cover at most one vertex. This means that it is not possible to cover all three vertices of the larger triangle using only two smaller triangles.
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