Given ten balls, the task is to place these 10 balls in five lines such that each line contains exactly 4 balls.
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Solution:
- Draw the star with a pentagon in the centre. 👁 2-1-1
- Place each ball at the intersection of extended lines of pentagon 👁 3-1-1
- Then place remaining balls on 5 vertices of pentagon. 👁 4-1-1
- Hence the solution to the "Ten balls in five lines" is:
The solution to the above puzzle can be obtained as:
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