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tmua.fyi Paper 2 Challenge 2 · Q12

Paper 2Geometry

Five points are placed inside a square of side 22. Which argument shows that some two of them are a distance at most 2\sqrt2 apart?

ADivide the square into four squares of side 11; two of the points lie in the same one, and its diagonal is 2\sqrt2.
BThe five points cannot all lie at corners of the square.
CThe average of the ten distances between the points is less than 2\sqrt2.
DDivide the square into five regions; each point lies in one of them.
ENo argument works: the four corners together with the centre is a counterexample.
FThe square has diagonal 222\sqrt2, and half of 222\sqrt2 is 2\sqrt2.
GDivide the square into two rectangles; three of the points lie in the same one.
HAny five points in the plane include two at distance at most 2\sqrt2.

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