Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/220 - The Five Fences
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $220$
- The Five Fences
- A man owned a large, fenced-in field in which were $16$ oak trees, as depicted in the diagram.
- He wished to put up five straight fences so that every tree should be in a separate enclosure.
- How did he do it?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $220$. -- The Five Fences
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Dividing-the-Plane Puzzles: $298$. The Five Fences