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 Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:53 pm
8-WAY CAKE SLICE
You have a round birthday cake. With three straight slices of a knife, divide the cake into 8 equal pieces. I know of two different solutions.
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Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:08 pm
Look at the cake sideways, and cut through the middle.
It should be like a sandwich now, with two circular cakes, but now thinner. [because you've split it]. Without moving the circular cakes [still leaving them on top of each other], you make an "X", so therefore, you've just cut 8 pieces!!! Four on the top slice, and four on the bottom.
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 8:14 am
wow very nicely done on that one.
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