RE: Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem?
August 6, 2017 at 2:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 6, 2017 at 2:36 pm by Joods.)
How about I just give everyone icing-less cake and I keep the icing all to myself?
I do make a pretty badass icing, if I do say so myself. Many of my fellow students in school begged me to make their graduation cakes for them.
And therein lies the solution:
You scrape all of the icing off the cake first, then cut the cake into five equal portions. Then you take the icing and divide it into five equal portions and let everyone put their share of icing on their share of cake.
/thread.
I do make a pretty badass icing, if I do say so myself. Many of my fellow students in school begged me to make their graduation cakes for them.
And therein lies the solution:
You scrape all of the icing off the cake first, then cut the cake into five equal portions. Then you take the icing and divide it into five equal portions and let everyone put their share of icing on their share of cake.
/thread.
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