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This one's been bugging me for years since I took hs geometry. Construction using only ruler and compass. Given any four points, construct a square so that each side of the square or its extension passes through one of the four points. Show method, please

2007-11-28 11:19:31 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Mathematics

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this is not possible.
for example, consider the following consideration:
take 3 points to be a triangle, and put the 4th point in the center.

2007-12-02 10:40:57 · answer #1 · answered by robert 6 · 0 0

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