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Hellenic Mathematical Olympiad ARCHIMEDES

Greece geometry

Problem

Is it possible to put on the plane points, so that with vertices from these points to construct parallelograms of area ?
Solution
We shall prove that it is possible. We consider two parallel lines with distance . We put on each of them points such that every two successive of them have distance . Then we have in the line segments of length and in the line we have also unit segments. Any pair of unit segments having members from both lines gives rise to a parallelogram of area . Therefore we have totally parallelograms of area .
Final answer
Yes

Techniques

QuadrilateralsConstructions and loci