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Hey Scotto,
I need help for the following word problem:
Suppose that you draw a 2" x 2" square, then join the midpoints of its sides to make another square, then join the midpoints of that square's sides to form another square, etc. Will the total length of the figure you are drawing be finite?
The figure looks like the following:
http://img187.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan0001hpv.jpg
A step-by-step explanation would be helpful. Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer this question Scotto. I need to know how to do this before sometime mid-Tuesday. That would be great. But even if it's late tuesday, it's cool.
Rob
I can't find the image from my computer anywhere on the internet.
I tried the full image name and also tried it reduced several times to less and less letters. It still didn't find it.
However, it sounds like the area of each square will be exactly 1/2 the area of the square before. If the area of all the these images are added up, the result would be twice the area of the first square.
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