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A Rod and a Pole
Age 7 to 11
Challenge Level 
A lady has a steel rod that she knows to be exactly $3$ units
long, and a wooden pole that she knows is exactly $13$ units long.
Her only tools are a pencil and a saw.
She needs an $8$ unit long wooden pole. She finds that is not possible to mark the steel rod, but she can draw on the wooden pole.
How can she measure out the $8$ unit pole?
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