1090.41 – Cutting a Rectangle


Here is a 3x5 piece of artist's cardboard lightly scored into squares as shown below. Show how to cut this cardboard into three pieces, each of which can be folded up into a cubical box without a lid.

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Solution

The figure below gives one solution.

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