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Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem?
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RE: Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem?
(August 14, 2016 at 11:49 am)popeyespappy Wrote:


Mathematically this is a easy and clear solution, but I rejected it because I missed the part about the cake being a square, and thought the original question indicated the dimension, and presumably the aspect ratio, of the cake didn't matter.  This implies the solution had to be elegant enough to not require careful measurements of the aspect ratio of the cake to come up with angles of the cuts.
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RE: Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem? - by Anomalocaris - August 14, 2016 at 3:38 pm

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