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If there are 10 squares that have 15ft long sides, and they can share sides, what is the least amount of wire needed to construct all 10 sauares?
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document.write( "10 squares can be drawn in 3 dimensions by constructing\r\n" );
document.write( "this \"chair\" using 22 line segments.  Since each line \r\n" );
document.write( "segment is 15ft long, the minimum amount of wire needed \r\n" );
document.write( "is 22x15 or 330 ft.  3 line segments cannot be seen \r\n" );
document.write( "in the drawing as they are back behind the bottom cube.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If this must be done in 2 dimensions I think the minimum \r\n" );
document.write( "number of segments is 27, and 27x15 or 405 ft. of fencing would\r\n" );
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