Guest Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 There is a circular cake. You need to divide it into eight pieces using only three straight cuts. How do you do this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 cut it in halfhorizontal-2 slices cut in half vertical-4 slices. Stack the four slices and cut again. -8 slices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Brandonb Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 This topic has already posted HERE Welcome to the forum fibonacci, Please click and read the "Important: READ BEFORE POSTING" bright pink/red bar across the top of the page. You'll get a few tips about how to search for threads that have been posted before. For this all that was needed was "Cut+Cake" BTW, a good rule of thumb is that if you didn't come up with it yourself, it's probably already been posted... several times... so please look it up if you didn't make it up. Again, welcome to the forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 There is a circular cake. You need to divide it into eight pieces using only three straight cuts. How do you do this? cut cake in half, you have two pieces, put one half on the other and cut again, you have four pieces, now stack and cut in half. three cuts and 8 pieces Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 rookie1ja Posted May 12, 2008 Report Share Posted May 12, 2008 all written by Brandonb ... looking forward to new puzzles thread locked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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