Draw 5 straight line segments through the 12 points below without lifting your pencil, so that each point...
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Problem
Draw 5 straight line segments through the 12 points below without
lifting your pencil, so that each point has exactly one line through it
and the last line ends where the first line started.
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[ Editor: the twelve points are marked * in the drawing below; the dots
trace the five segments. ]
........*...*...*...*........
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* * * *
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* * * *
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-- Chris Cahill <ccahill@franciscan.org>