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10.05 · Venn Diagrams & Visual Reasoning
Counting Figures & Mirror Images
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Rules
At a glance 10 rules
- 1Lines from one vertex
- 2Count by piecesLabel the corners, then count triangles made of 1 piece, 2 pieces, 3 and so on. A triangle needs three drawn sides and no three corners on one line.
- 3Triangle cut into n rows
- 4Rectangles in an m × n grid
- 5Squares on a grid of dotsEvery upright square of side s has s squares with corners on its sides: itself and s - 1 tilted ones. Count upright squares by size and multiply by s.
- 6Mirror and water imagesSide mirror: left and right swap; A H I M O T U V W X Y look the same. Water: top and bottom swap, order kept; B C D E H I K O X look the same.
- 7Half-turnA 180° turn is a mirror image and a water image together: the order reverses and each letter turns upside down. Only H I N O S X Z survive it.
- 8Clock in a mirror
- 9Lines of symmetrySquare 4; rectangle or rhombus (not a square) 2; isosceles trapezium 1; parallelogram 0; equilateral triangle 3; regular polygon with $ sides $.
- 10Paper foldingUnfold in reverse order, mirroring every hole across each fold line: f folds give holes. A hole beside a crease stays beside it, never near a corner.
Test yourself
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- Q1Easy
In a triangle, 3 lines are drawn from the top vertex to the base, cutting the base into 4 parts. How many triangles are there in the figure in all?
Correct answer10
Why
Lines from one vertex: any 2 of the points on the base, joined to the top vertex, make a triangle.
The base has 5 points (2 ends and 3 cuts), and , which is with parts.
So there are 10 triangles in all.
- Q2Easy
Which of these words, written in capital letters, looks exactly the same in its water image?
Correct answerHIKED
Why
Water image: each letter flips top to bottom and the order stays.
Every letter must be symmetric about a horizontal line: H, I, K, E and D are; T, W and R are not.
TOOT and WOW pass only in a side mirror, so HIKED is the word.
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