It is your birthday and you have 8 guests.
How can you cut the cake into exactly 8 equal pieces making only 3 cuts?
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Well first you’d need *nine* pieces if you had eight guests. But if you only want 8 pieces, cut the cake into quarters with 2 cuts, and then cut the height of the cake in half with the third cut!
Although ch1’s method could work, half the guests would have no icing. I see 2 other options.
Both start by cutting the cake in quarters. First cut the cake into 2 halves, the next cut goes throw both halves, now you have 4 quarters
1) best option, align the 4 quarters in a row and use your last cut to go through all 4, now you have 8 peices
2) messier
Although ch1’s method could work, half the guests would have no icing. I see 2 other options.
Both start by cutting the cake in quarters. First cut the cake into 2 halves, the next cut goes throw both halves, now you have 4 quarters
1) best option, align the 4 quarters in a row and use your last cut to go through all 4, now you have 8 peices. This is the same kind of cut as wher you cut the 2 halves into 4 pieces.
2) More messy option. Stack the 4 peices on top of each other and use the last cut to go through all 4
We then have a cage death match to see which of the 9 of us (me and 8 guests) don’t get some yummy cake.
Late on this one…
two straight cuts across, intersecting to form right angles. 1 cut a circle appropriately spaced so the area of the resulting pieces is the same. (not sure where one would make that cut.
Late on this one…
two straight cuts across, intersecting to form right angles. 1 cut a circle appropriately spaced so the area of the resulting pieces is the same. (not sure where one would make that cut.
(somehow it’s not taking this answer…says I’ve already said it). Trying again)
ch1cag0rob, you are today’s winner!
Make one cut to divide the cake in 2. Make a second cut at right angle to the first cut to divide the cake into 4. Now make a 3rd cut horizontally through the middle (height) of the entire cake, splitting the height of the cake into 2. You now have 8 equal pieces.