Tag: geometry

Interview Questions

• The ant crawling across a box
• Breaking a stick into a triangle
• Eight cake pieces from only three cuts
• 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, ... and the pattern that breaks
• Angle between clock hands at 3:30
• A coin rolling around a coin
• Slicing a cube to get a hexagon
• How many squares does a diagonal cross?
• The biggest pen you can build against a wall
• Five lattice points and a hidden midpoint
• How many squares are on a chessboard?
• Most pieces of pancake from six straight cuts
• Fewest cuts to dice a cube into 27
• The napkin ring that ignores the sphere's size
• The painted cube cut into 64 cubies
• One extra meter of rope around the Earth
• Walk south, east, north, and end up home
• Can the three stick pieces form a triangle