Take ﬁve right triangles with legs of length one and two, cut one of them, and put the resulting six pieces together to form a square.

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anonymous · Answer

it looks like cut one of them is not specified how,so we are free to cut anyhow

anonymous · Answer

It's like a tangram..
sounds fun.

anonymous · Answer

turingtest · Answer

|dw:1351901440551:dw|my instinct is to start with this and try to fill the smaller inner square somehow

anonymous · Answer

That makes sense given that the total area is 5 sq. units, so the square is √5 on each side.

anonymous · Answer

what happens when you squeeze then togrther

anonymous · Answer

Would this work?
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anonymous · Answer

sorry it's not to scale; pretend that's a 1x1 square on the right.

turingtest · Answer

then just cut the last one at the like so|dw:1351901810258:dw|