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Quizzical Pursuit - The Architecture Puzzler
by Dave Guadagni
Architecture Puzzler This Week
If you had the tools and the inclination you could bend a 1/8" (0.32 cm.) thick strip of cherry wood into a hoop with a diameter of approximately 11" (27.94 cm.). What diameter hoop could you make with the same thickness of red oak? With western red cedar?
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The solution to this week's puzzlers will be published here next week.
Last Week's Puzzler Question
According to "American School & University" magazine, public school districts across the United States put more than $17 billion worth of construction in place in 1998. On average the construction cost per student in a new high school was about:
a) $8,500?
b) $19,300?
c) $24,800?
Answer to Last Week's Puzzler
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
Quizzical Pursuit is Copyright 2000, Dave Guadagni.
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