Solution to Problem 84



Congratulations to this week's winners:

Kyle Ambroso, Mundia Mubyana, Ray Kremer

From outside Bradley University, correct solutions were submitted by Monty Gray, Bill Webb, Michael Morrison, Burkart Venzke, Philippe Fondanaiche, and one other correspondent.


There are several ways to interpret the problem.  The most common solution involves putting the four brothers at the vertices of a regular tetrahedron inscribed in the sphere of the earth.  This solution is mimicked in nature by the arrangement of four hydrogen atoms surrounding a carbon atom in a molecule of methane.

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