Time for MATH MINUTE! (provide your favorite theme music here).

Get out your paper & pencil because I have a new puzzle for you!!

PUZZLE #19 Fencing the land Feb. 19 -Feb. 23

If two farmers inherit 5 acres of land configured as

Shown (each square is 1 acre), how can they divide it by a single straight fence so that each farmer has exactly ½ of the land?

(Hint: There is more than one answer!)

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See you next time on MATH MINUTE! (theme music fades out here).