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- Suppose we have an irregular cuboid (that is, a hexahedron with six irregular quadrilateral faces) ABCDEFGH that we wish to divide into four smaller cuboids, such that three of them each fully share a face with one of the outer cuboid's three faces adjacent to point H (so, JKCDNOGH, IBKDMFOH, and LMNOEFGH in the diagram), and the fourth cuboid shares a vertex with opposite point A (thus AIJKLMNO in the diagram), and such that each of the four cuboids has equal volume.
- ![Diagram](https://math.codidact.com/uploads/vp4c56pidtgywkzvum2l3pwtxcz6)
- How might one determine coordinates for I, J, K, L, M, N and O, that satisfy these constraints?
- Suppose we have an irregular cuboid (that is, a hexahedron with six irregular quadrilateral faces) ABCDEFGH that we wish to divide into four smaller cuboids, such that three of them each fully share a face with one of the outer cuboid's three faces adjacent to point H (so, JKCDNOGH, IBKDMFOH, and LMNOEFGH in the diagram), and the fourth cuboid shares a vertex with opposite point A (thus AIJKLMNO in the diagram), and such that each of the four cuboids has equal volume.
- ![Diagram](https://math.codidact.com/uploads/vp4c56pidtgywkzvum2l3pwtxcz6)
- How might one determine coordinates for I, J, K, L, M, N and O, that satisfy these constraints?
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Dividing a cuboid in four
Suppose we have an irregular cuboid (that is, a hexahedron with six irregular quadrilateral faces) ABCDEFGH that we wish to divide into four smaller cuboids, such that three of them each fully share a face with one of the outer cuboid's three faces adjacent to point H (so, JKCDNOGH, IBKDMFOH, and LMNOEFGH in the diagram), and the fourth cuboid shares a vertex with opposite point A (thus AIJKLMNO in the diagram), and such that each of the four cuboids has equal volume. ![Diagram](https://math.codidact.com/uploads/vp4c56pidtgywkzvum2l3pwtxcz6) How might one determine coordinates for I, J, K, L, M, N and O, that satisfy these constraints?