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Question

You might know me from my recent last question. I ran out of characters to right the question. No stupid answers like I don't want to help you do your homework or I will report you. Here is the last question. Thanks!
This one takes another picture:
There are 12 toothpicks making four squars. 4 toothpicks to make a cross and 8 toothpicks surround it in taking a shape of a big square. How do you have only two squares left and only take out 2 toothpicks? (If you take a random 2 I know you would have techinically have 2 squares but you would still have some remaining sticks. Also if you took a middle 2 toothpicks you would have two rectangles and square can be rectangles but rectangles can't be squares.)

Answer 1

This is the original arrangement:
__ __
l__l __l
l__ l__l

This becomes:
__ __
l.....l __l
l___ __l

The dots in the middle left are only for spacing, nothing else. You get the idea?

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

take out two of the adjacent toothpicks forming the cross.
Now you have two squares inside each other, one that is one toothpick on a side and one that is larger two toothpicks on a side.

Answer 4

__ __
l__l __l
l__ l__l

Remove the middle left toothpick and the middle lower vertical toothpicks


This gives you one little square and one big square

Answer 5

the toothpick formation should look like this...

__ __
|. .|__|
|__ __|

we only removed the two toothpicks... and the squares are only the smaller one and the bigger one...

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