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An equilateral triangle divided into 81 triangles.

Source: St. Petersburg MO 2000, 11th grade, P1

April 22, 2023
geometrycongruent trianglesparallelogram

Problem Statement

An equilateral triangle with side length 9 is divided into 81 congruent triangles with segments which are parallel to the sides of the triangle. Prove that it cannot be divided into more than 18 parallelograms with sides 1 and 2.
[I]Proposed by O.Vanyushina