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Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem?

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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 6, 2017 at 11:15 am
(August 6, 2017 at 10:58 am)popeyespappy Wrote:
(August 6, 2017 at 9:49 am)Dropship Wrote: Hey wait a minute, ain't it cheating to use a ruler to meaure precise distances?
And if a ruler is allowed, wouldn't it be far simpler to just make straight cuts right across the cake at 4cm intervals to get 5 rectangular slices or have I got my maths wrong?

If you do it your way everyone is going to get the same amount of cake, but the 2 people on the ends are going to get a lot more icing than the 3 in the middle.

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Wait, you haven't accounted for the thickness of the frosting. Yeah the slices on the end will have more frosting, but they'll habe less cake by whatever depth the frosting is.
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RE: Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem? - by Jackalope - August 6, 2017 at 11:15 am

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