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Old May 25th, 2007, 11:56 AM
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Default Problem 23

Consider a tunnel (not necessarily straight) of length 101 units through a
sphere of radius 51 units.

Prove that the sphere can be cut into two congruent pieces one of which
contains the tunnel in its interior.

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