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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 2:35 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: 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.


Now you're thinking like the students I used to have, whose street smarts inclined them to choose the practical over the idealized hypothetical.  Every year at least one student would suggest putting the whole cake, frosting and all, in a blender and serving it like a pudding equally.
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RE: Can you cut a cake fairly to solve this middle school math problem? - by Whateverist - August 6, 2017 at 2:44 pm

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