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
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The cake could have been cut into 6 equal pieces.
6/8
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