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Teaser 2492

Victor Bryant
The Sunday Times
Victor Bryant
The Sunday Times

I started with a rectangular piece of paper and made a cut across it, dividing it into a triangle and a pentagon. Then I discarded the triangle and measured the lengths of the sides of the pentagon, all of which were whole numbers of centimetres.

I remember that the lengths of the shortest two sides were 17cm and 19cm, and that the length of the longest side was 33cm.

What were the lengths of the other two sides?

Send your solution to Teaser 2492, The Sunday Times, 1 Pennington Street, London E98 1SJ.

The first two correct solutions opened win £20.

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Solution to Teaser 2490 58 litres