Is it possible to cut a regular triangle into:
a) three equal quadrilaterals;
b) three equal pentagons?
Convexity of quadrilaterals and pentagons is not required.
Solution
a) Consider a regular triangle , denote its midpoints by respectively. (fig. 04). The segments , and intersect at . It is easy to see that the quadrilaterals , and satisfy the condition.
b) Now let us denote the midpoints of , and by , and respectively. The pentagons which we are looking for are , and .
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