5 mins to kill?

A couple buy a perfectly square piece of land and in one corner they build a house taking up exactly one quarter of the property as shown (if it comes out properly!). Then they are set a puzzle by their four children. They each want a piece of the remainder of the property exactly the same size and shape as each other. Can you help guys and gals?

 

I thought I had it using triangles, but I was wrong.

 

it's just a tad more sneaky than that

 

This makes no mention of whether the entire remainder of the property be divided equally among them. Otherwise, it would be easy to give them each a piece with the same size and shape . . . .

 

sorry Phyllis just for you then....yes the remainder of the property is taken up by the four plots for the kids!

 

not the prettiest drawing, but solution is attatched.

 

I dont know how to attatch without the picture showing, so sorry if I spoiled anybodys fun!

 

So simplistic.. I really should have thought of that.

I did loads of ways

I thought I had it when I split it up into 8 equal parts then co-joined , but nah

Thanks for the time "Killer"

 

The simplest solutions are always the hardest things to get, I was drawing parrelelograms, triangles, etc for ages before I thought of doing the L shapes.

 

well done MutD....give the man the money.....

 

Technically, you can't build a house in the corner like that. It has to be a certain distance from the property line. I'm sure it varies for different municipalities, but around here, I thinks it's five or ten feet.



-Steve

 

And....if he'd built the house central on the land it would have been much simpler to divide up the remaining land between his 4 children

 

I see problems down the road when the parents are out of the picture, and the kids have to divide the property again.

 

What are those kids going to do with an "L" shaped piece of property anyway?

 

Practice Boomerang Tossing....

 

Yeah, build on the three remaining plots, charge the kids rent, and move to Hawaii...