1090.26 – Equitable Cake Cutting


Here is a delicious, two-layer, chocolate cake. How will you cut the cake into eight equal pieces using only three cuts of the knife? The first cut is shown in the figure.

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Solution

A solution is in the figure below. Be sure that the horizontal cut is made aboveabove the frosting in the middle so that everyone gets the same amount of frosting.

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