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9 Folding and Angles

Basic Concepts Folding Origami Paper to Form Equilateral Triangles

How to fold equilateral triangles with origami paper.
A D A D AED

BC BC BC

Fold the paper Fold the corners Triangle BEC is
in half. Then, A and D such that an equilateral
unfold it. they lie on the triangle.
folded center line.

Example Explain why triangle BEC is an equilateral triangle.

A D
E

BC

Class Notes

Since ABCD is a square, lines AB, BC, and CD are equal.

When the paper is folded, line AB becomes BE and line CD becomes CE. Therefore,

line AB line and line CD line .

Lines BE, , and BC are equal. Therefore triangle BEC is an .

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