Cut And Paste

[freetrav]

You've been given a clock face with no numbers, and four strips of plastic letters as shown below. You have to cut those strips up, and paste the pieces onto the clock face so that it has the correct numbers in the correct locations. How do you cut the strips?


VIIIIIX

VIIIIIX

VIIIIIX

VIIIIIX


ETA: OK, I should know better when Callahooligans read my journal... Let me rephrase the question: Between which letters on which strips would you cut to accomplish the stated aim?

Comments

[tamouse]

For precision, I'd use a steel straight-edge and an exacto knife. How would you do it?

[pauamma]

Are the strips transparent enough to see the markings from either side once stuck on the clockface?

[freetrav]

It wasn't assumed so, but I'd be interested to see if your solution assuming the affirmative differs significantly from solutions I've already seen assuming the negative.

[pauamma]

*blink* I'm not sure what caused my comment to revert to its initial state, before I added "never mind, it doesn't matter." But the idea was that if they were transparent, VI could be flipped over to become IV. The change to my comment came when I counted the symbols and found out there wouldn't be enough Vs oin that cases, unless you used IIX for 8, which would require more Xs than available.

[unixronin]

V IIII IX
VI II IIX
VII III X
VIII I IX