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\n" ); document.write( "With the problem as stated, it is only guesswork to try to find the solution, because we don't know how the 6 circular poles would be arranged.
\n" ); document.write( "With SEVEN circular poles, the solution could be as shown by one of the tutors who have supplied responses to the problem. The 7th pole in the center makes a predictable and stable arrangement of the other 6 poles.
\n" ); document.write( "The other tutor supplied a response assuming the 6 poles are bound together in an arrangement that forms an equilateral triangle. That arrangement of the poles allows for a solution to the problem; and her solution for that arrangement is correct.
\n" ); document.write( "However, that arrangement of the poles is not stable. 6 poles bound together as tightly as possible with a flexible rope would not form an equilateral triangle.
\n" ); document.write( "The actual solution to the problem would require some complicated analysis of the physics involved and what the arrangement of the 6 poles would be.
\n" ); document.write( "So we can't know what the correct solution to the problem is.
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