Sad Man and the animals are making some rectangular sandwiches for a party. In the Great Hall, Bad Man tells the contestants they have to make rectangles from some lines and angles on a screen. Bad Man visits a supermarket and confuses customers by telling them that only rectangles are allowed at one of the tills. Rector, the Sniffer Dog, sings a song about sniffing out rectangles. In the Great Hall, the contestants have to produce rectangles from a collection of shapes. They complete the task and win a maths card.

Viewers' Challenge

If you connect up the outside points of each letter on a computer keyboard, how many letters have:

• no rectangles?
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• one rectangle?
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• more than one rectangle?

Answers

Click on a letter below to choose an answer.

	Letters with no rectangles: 16 (Q, W, R, T, Y, U, I, O, P, A, S, D, G, J, L, C,) Letters with one rectangle: 6 (F, K, Z, X, N, M) Letters with more than one rectangle: 4 (E, H, V, B)
	Letters with no rectangles: 18 (Q, W, R, T, Y, U, I, O, P, A, S, D, G, J, L, C, V, B) Letters with one rectangle: 7 (F, K, Z, X, N, M, H) Letters with more than one rectangle: 1 (E)
	Letters with no rectangles: 17 (Q, W, R, T, Y, U, I, O, A, S, D, G, J, L, C, V, B) Letters with one rectangle: 7 (F, K, Z, X, N, M, P) Letters with more than one rectangle: 2 (E, H)
	Letters with no rectangles: 18 (Q, W, R, T, Y, U, I, O, P, A, S, D, G, J, L, C, V, B) Letters with one rectangle: 6 (F, K, Z, X, N, M) Letters with more than one rectangle: 2 (E, H)
	Letters with no rectangles: 18 (Q, W, R, T, Y, U, I, O, P, A, S, D, G, J, L, C, V, B) Letters with one rectangle: 6 (F, K, Z, X, N, M) Letters with more than one rectangle: 1 (E)