A kid collected the following wood cuttings of equal size. He wants to glue the pieces together to make a square.
At least how many of them are needed?
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The kid can glue 4 wood cutting and make the smallest square.
Each of the wood cuttings has 9 small squares. Therefore, the smallest perfect square which is multiple of 9 is 4×9= 36 which is equal to 6×6=36. Also, the above diagram shows the feasible of creating smallest square with minimum 4 wood cuttings.