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From: eagle@ihuxs.UUCP (John Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Puzzle (forwarded)
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 10:02:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 10:02:22 1984
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From: Michael Rios (at AT&T Bell Labs, I think)
Re: A personal headache.

When I was in high school, I was a very active member of the Math Team (much
to the other members' annoyance, most of the time).  We would always (to keep
in practice) generate problems to give to each other and set a time limit
(typically a week) to solve them.  The only problem ever to defeat me was one
that I made up myself:

	A regular pentagon of side 10 has a line drawn inside it, parallel
	to one side, which divides the pentagon into two sections of equal
	area.  What is the length of this line (no decimal approximations,
	please)?

Could someone please help me with this?



("Is this the right room for an arguement?" "I've told you once.")

                                              Michael Rios
                                              Chicago, Il.
                                              Earth

("No you haven't.")
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				John T. Blumenstein
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