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1-34.
Nadine and Diondra were working together to divide a circle into three equal parts. They came up with the diagrams shown below. Tanisha said, “One of these pictures is wrong.”
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What do you think? Is one picture incorrect? If so, which one? Why?
Try to imagine the separate pieces of a circle being rotated or moved.
Remember that dividing the circle into three equal parts means all three sections should be the same size.