Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
You are only given the three midpoints of the sides of a triangle.
How can you construct the original triangle?
Is there more than one answer?
Similar triangles. Straight edge & compass constructions. Short problems. engineering. Rigid Bodies. Golden ratio. Divisibility. Modulus arithmetic. physics. Forces.
Published January 1997,September 2008.
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