Answer to the second puzzle

2 2 3
4
3

There's really no difficulty here. Just double to make sure there are no halves in the answer. But this puzzle does tell you that the smallest square doesn't have to have unit size.

On to Puzzle 3.

Back to Puzzle 2.

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David E. Joyce

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610

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