Question
Taylor baked a cake to serve after dinner suppose she cut the cake into 8 equal size pieces and 6 people ate all the pieces explain how they could have divided the pieces so that everyone ate the same amount of cake
Answers
Ms. Sue
The cake could have been cut into 6 equal pieces.
Lynda Gordon
6/8
Rids
6 people get 6 pieces.
now your left with 2 pieces of cake which is 1/4 of cake.
now 1/4 of cake cut into 6 equal parts
which is:
1/4x1/6 = 1/24
so everyone gets 1/8+1/24=1/6
now your left with 2 pieces of cake which is 1/4 of cake.
now 1/4 of cake cut into 6 equal parts
which is:
1/4x1/6 = 1/24
so everyone gets 1/8+1/24=1/6