Is it possible for five or more different colors to all be touching in some way?

Question

My daughter has to draw a picture where you have to have five or more different colers in it. and the same colors cant touch. I know you can get four, but I cant get five. So wasn't sure if it was possible.

Answer 1

It is very possible. Use circles and fill in the spaces with the fifth color.

Answer 2

wow so all 5 have to touch each other all together not like a rainbow cuz only one color would taouch one color and so forth wow i will think on it i am not sure how though .let me get back to you try a geometric shape i tried to find it on the search but i find art but not what you want i would say intercepting swirls would be good but to have all five touch each other i am not sure.hmm or what about a sries of triangles not the reg triangles ( by the way i suck at this lol) but the other ones and have them go to extend beyond each other with the four colors and have the fifth surrounding all maybe kind of hard to show here i guess but what i did was type in geometric art ( and you prob just type in art and see what comes up and browse what is there and see if anything looks like what you need

Answer 3

There's something called the "four color map" problem. The question is, is it possible to prove that any map can be colored with just four different colors, so that no two sections with the same color are touching.

It is easy to color maps that way, but very hard to prove that any map can be colored that way.

It sounds like you or your daughter might have misunderstood the assignment. It is a lot easier to color a map with five colors than four colors.

Try sticking with four colors, and then when you get to a spot that is stuck, use your fifth color there.

Answer 4

I've got it I hope...now it's just the understanding part...

Ok...draw 3 rectangle on top of each other...

Like so: (Sort of)

Rect
Rect
Rect

Have square one be red, middle square blue and bottom square white or black, your choice...

Try and draw something like this

Keep the rectangles tops and bottoms connected....It should like an L from top across side of rectangle to bottom right of the bottom-most rectangle... A 7 shaped piece should be across the side going up and across the left meeting the top of the L shaped piece (Piece 1 is the L, piece 2 is the 7)...Make these 2 newly made pieces Yellow and Green and make sure they connect to both sides of the rectangles on their own sides.

You'll notice the only pieces not touching are the red rectangle and white/black rectangle on the bottom...Simply make a small red square next to the white/black piece (Leave enough room so the green piece is still touching the white/black piece though as well!)

Hope this is understandable, and good luck to your daughter!

Answer 5

how about a circle cut into four sections (and colors) and a smaller circle within the circle with a fifth color,

Answer 6

possibly a color wheel, triangle part meeting in the middle??

Answer 7

No, you will just end up with grey. It all comes down to grey

Answer 8

are we talking about primary colours here? u should b more specific

Answer 9

a rainbow ?

Answer 10

a rainbow?