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Geometry Difficulty 5.5 AIME, harder Prove it Russia

Several cardboard rectangles, possibly of different sizes, are put onto a rectangular table; the sides of rectangles are parallel to those of the table. The rectangles may overlap, but there are no two rectangles with four common vertices. May it happen that each point which is a vertex of some rectangle is in fact a vertex of exactly three rectangles?
(I. Bogdanov)

Solution

Figure 1
Рис. 4

На рис. 4 показано, как можно положить три пары прямоугольников так, чтобы для каждой пары все точки AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF, GG, HH были вершинами ровно по разу. Одинаковыми точками отмечены вершины одного из прямоугольников пары.

Замечание. Существует много других примеров; один из них указан на рис. 5.

Figure 2
Рис. 5

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