Top suggestions for Let us consider the Carpenter’s Problem again. If the wooden strips have to be placed such that the thread passing through their endpoints forms a square, what must be done? B C As in the previous case, let us try to construct a square, one of whose diagonals is O A of length 8 cm. While solving the Carpenter’s Problem for the case of a rectangle, we have seen that to get a quadrilateral with all angles 90° (and opposite sides of equal length), the diagonals have to be drawn such that — D (i) they are of equal lengths, and (ii) they bisect each other. What more needs to be done to get equal sidelengths as well? Can this be achieved by properly choosing the angle between the diagonals? See if you can reason and/or experiment to figure this out |