A tetrahedron and an octahedron, both have equilateral triangular faces.

Can you arrange these 8 polyhedra in a line so that every two polys next to each other have a face of the same shape. The matching faces do not need to be the same size.

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This problem is adapted from the NRICH task Chain of Polyhedra with permission of the University of Cambridge. All rights reserved. Explore NRICH for many other rich mathematical activities.

 

 

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