A 20 Year Old's Ingenuity Captured Our Attention For Centuries

Geometry Level 2

When he was 20, Wilson Alwyn “Snowflake” Bentley photographed his first snowflake by perfecting the process of catching the flakes on black velvet before they melted or sublimated. He pioneered the art of snowflake photography, and captured over 5000 beautiful images for us.

In the above image, how many lines of symmetry does the snowflake have?

3 6 9 12

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13 solutions

Skylar Saveland
Feb 19, 2014

The 6 main branches represent 3 lines of symmetry. The six spaces between them are also 3 lines of symmetry.

yup thats right. By mistake i counted each line twice - even from the oppoite side. So stupid of me!!

Parth Pathak - 7 years, 1 month ago

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Same mistake done

Dheeraj Girdhar - 5 years, 6 months ago

Thats Right

Kartik Soni - 7 years, 3 months ago
Rutvik Paikine
Feb 19, 2014

If we observe, the "snowflake" FORMS a hexagon!

Hence, lines of Symmetry....!

Nice obeservation!!

Parth Pathak - 7 years, 1 month ago

Line of symmetry means an imaginary line that devides any body into two reflective halves . In this problem ,the branches & spaces represent 6 lines of symmetry in total .

very clear sir..

NeHA ParAsHar............. - 7 years, 3 months ago

thanks

aditya singh - 7 years, 3 months ago

thanks

Aji Karunakaran - 7 years, 3 months ago
Rahul Kulkarni
Mar 1, 2014

nof of sides= no of lines of symmetry

Rohan Kumar
Feb 19, 2014

3 lines of symmetry for the lines which we are seeing in the photo and 3 lines for middle of them

no there is 6 lines

Abdelrhman Kamanga - 7 years, 3 months ago
Rab Gani
Feb 19, 2014

A line of symmetry is aline where we can flip up 2 half's of identical shapes of an object . Looking to the picture, we can make 6 lines of symmetries.

Kalpesh Parikh
Mar 9, 2014

Picture represents 6 lines of symmetry, b coz every line middle of the picture divides 2 lines at the edge of pattern. Hence, It implies Six lines

Hannah Farmer
Feb 21, 2014

6 lines of symmetry, there are 6 lines

Callum Farnden
Feb 20, 2014

Line of symmetry from each branch to it's opposite and between spaces in the same way. So 6.

Ben L-M
Feb 20, 2014

6

The solution is 6 lines of symmetry as per me

Puneet Pinku
Feb 20, 2014

The problem solution has a total of 6 lines of symmetry. Three from the lines on the Koch Snowflake picture itself and three from the non-sided sides. Thus making a total of (3+3)= 6 sides.. Moreover this shape is so fascinating that the Koch Snowflake has infinite no. of sides as well as infinite perimeter but a definite area...

Namrata Nayak
Feb 19, 2014

we can make 6 lines of symmetries

we can make 6 lines of symmetries as it has six branches so 3 and gap between 6 branches get 3 . so 3+3 =6 symmetry lines

Manohar Deshmukh - 7 years, 3 months ago

by considering line as contineous then ans is 3.

jasvendra rajput - 7 years, 3 months ago

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