If you want to divide a cake equally among five kids but can only cut three times, how would you do it?

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Leave the knife on the table with them and say "go".

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We want the cake cut, not the children.

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Circles and magic

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Cut it into 6 and eat the spare slice myself.

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yup, was thinking the exact same thing

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This!

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+1

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Is the cake round or square?

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The cake is a lie, end of story.

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spoiler...

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This, the cake doesn't exist anyway.

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It does exist, you just can't get to it.

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Agreed. The cake was not a lie as it was there in the end!

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I would eat it myself.

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Kill a kid. Use the remaining two cuts to cut the cake into four pieces.

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Impressive idea. I have to admit.

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Exactly how I expected everyone to answer lol

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I did try to do some math on it first, but I figured "Why bother? You've got five screaming kids that all want that cake!"

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cut 1/5 of a cake with one cut (have 1/5 and 4/5 cakes)
Then 4/5 of a cake cut to 2x 2/5 (have 1/5 and 2 x 2/5)
then put 2/5 on 2/5 and cut them to 1/5 with 1 cut (have 5 x 1/5)
(it's hard but it is possible)

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/clap

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could you estimate which % of the cake would be permanently spread on the table with this method?

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Why the fuck would you give cake to 5 kids?

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Because they're hyper and giving them more sugar would ... you have a point.

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2 cuts for the X
3th cut starts from the center, and slices the biggest piece in two

et voila, 5 pieces

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have to be equal sizes. put an x through the cake unless its off center of the cuts bend there is no single biggest piece

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who said the slices for the X have to be straight?
In my opinion you can slightly bend them

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Give up and order a pizza

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And then cut that up for 5 kids? you only get 3 cuts! :P

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Id tape 2 knives together and then cut it. Would be hard, but with perfect positioning you could cut and do it right. Untape them for the third cut if needed.

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do the cuts have to be straight or can I curve around as long as I don't lift the knife?

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so your first cut is a spiral starting at the center and circling out to the rim. the second cut is an overlapping spiral. so you've now got diced up little bits of cake. the third "cut" is just using the knife to push the little cake bits into 5 equal piles.

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Im not giving mah cake to those kids, I eat it all by myself! :D

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how about kill a kid? lmao

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I wold cut the cake in 6 pices, 5 for the kids and 6th for my companion cube :)

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If you can give kids more than one piece...
Looking at the cake like a clock face, make a cut the length of the cake from 0 minutes to 30 minutes, from 12 minutes to 42 minutes, and from 24 minutes to 54 minutes.
Kid 1 gets minutes 1-12
Kid 2 gets minutes 13-24
Kid 3 gets minutes 31-42
Kid 4 gets minutes 43-54
and kid 5 gets minutes 25-30 and minutes 55-60.
Each kid gets 20% of the cake, only 3 cuts made.

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Winner winner, chicken dinner.

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I'd go " (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ To hell with this! You cut your own damn cake! God knows you're old enough. I wanna see you go lord of the flies on this for my own entertainment! "

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You could never cut it precisely enough for the pieces to be exactly equal and divide them as such. So the answer is: The cake is a lie.

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Cut it into sixths and keep a piece for yourself, DUH~ :3

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At first I read the title as "click here".

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eat it and leave the little fuckers starve

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Eat the whole cake alone and tell the kids that it's stolen.

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Closed 1 decade ago by Mew2.