document.write( "Question 1167987: “If you have a square and you cut off one corner, how many corners do you have
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document.write( "left?” asked Mrs. Wheeler. “Easy” answered Tony, “Three”. ‘Wrong Tony!” cried
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document.write( "Donnie. Where did Tony go wrong?” Explain your answer with a sketch. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #792582 by josgarithmetic(39617)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! FIVE! \r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Cutting one corner off from the square object will produce two new corners, of more obtuse angles than right-angles on what was previously a square object.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Actually that is not yet complete. \n" ); document.write( "You could say EIGHT corners; because cutting off the one corner from the square forms a pentagon and and a triangle. You could call the vertices of the triangle, \"corners\". \n" ); document.write( " |