SOLUTION: How do you find the center of a rectangle garden, without using any measurements?

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Question 497705: How do you find the center of a rectangle garden, without using any measurements?
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Drive a stake into the ground at one corner. Tie a string to the stake. Go to the diagonally opposite corner and drive another stake into the ground. Tie the other end of your string to the second stake, making the string nice and taut.

Repeat the process for the other two corners of your rectangle.

The point where the two strings cross is the center.

John

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