Using four cuts, what is the greatest number of pieces of pizza you can get? The cuts have to be straight from edge to edge.
(The answer is not 8.)
Good Luck!
2007-11-26 12:00:40 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
I get eleven pieces. I'll have to try and draw it though...
First cut, divides the pizza into 2
Next cut goes through these two regions to make 4.
Next cut goes through three of the regions to make 7.
Last cut goes through four of these regions to make 11.
Sorry for the crude diagram, but hopefully it gets the idea across:
P.S. This assumes you can't stack the pieces in between slices. Otherwise I could just cut the 2 pieces into 4, the 4 into 8 and the 8 into 16.
2007-11-26 12:06:47 · answer #1 · answered by Puzzling 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
11
2007-11-26 12:18:24 · answer #2 · answered by Alberd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
11
2007-11-26 12:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by tanner_nathan_69 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The most pieces you can get is 11.
Make two intersecting cuts across the pie.
Make the third cut intersecting both the other cuts, but not at the same point where they intersected each other. This will give you 7 pieces, one of which is a triangle in the middle with no curved edges.
Make the fourth cut go across this triangle in the middle, but not through any of the previous intersection points.
2007-11-26 12:18:59 · answer #4 · answered by jim n 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
16
2007-11-26 12:06:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
11
Like so:
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f76/baseball8z/pizza.jpg
2007-11-26 12:08:52 · answer #6 · answered by baseball6z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋