matchstick puzzle

[Herrera]

If you have a total number of 24 matchsticks in squares and you have to remove 6 of them and make 3 squares with the rest of them, how would you do this and can you give me a visual solution please...

 

[plasmid]

How about:

 

Start with this (horizontal doublets represent one matchstick)
 –– –– ––
|  |  |  |
 –– –– ––
|  |  |  |
 –– –– ––
|  |  |  |
 –– –– ––
and end with this
 –– –– ––
|  |  |  |
 ––
|     |  |
 –– –– 
|        |
 –– –– ––

Edited December 2, 2015 by plasmid

[bonanova]

24-6 = 18
If you have unlimited number of moves, you can make three squares using 18 matches:
 _ _
|   |
|_ _| - 1 square, using 8 matches
 _ _
|_  |
|_|_| - 2 squares, using 10 matches

[bonanova]

Any other solutions?

[presidentabrahamlincoln]

On ‎12‎/‎1‎/‎2015 at 8:13 AM, bonanova said:

Any other solutions?

 

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Edited February 7, 2017 by Jan Adamovic

[presidentabrahamlincoln]

Please ignore the prior post.

Let the remaining matchsticks be located at these coordinates on the xy-axes:

(0, 0) to (0, 1)

(0, 1) to (0, 2)

(0, 2) to (0, 3)

(2, 0) to (2, 1)

(2, 1) to (2, 2)

(2, 2) to (2, 3)

(3, 1) to (3, 2)

(3, 2) to (3, 3)

(0, 0) to (1, 0)

(1, 0) to (2, 0)

(0, 1) to (1, 1)

(1, 1) to (2, 1)

(2, 1) to (3, 1)

(0, 2) to (1, 2)

(1, 2) to (2, 2)

(2, 2) to (3, 2)

(0, 3) to (1, 3)

(1, 3) to (2, 3)

[Buddyboy3000]

Spoiler

You can also have one big square with two smaller squares:

Each tick mark separates each matchstick