Sunday, October 31, 2010

Cut rectangular cake half

Given a rectangular cake with rectangular piece removed (any size, any orientation), how would you cut remainder cake in two equal haves with one straight cut of knife.


Cut the piece horizontally

2 comments:

  1. find out the centre of gravity of the cut-out piece and the resulting figure after cutting the piece off...the straight line joining these two points is the required straight cut...

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  2. the straight line that cuts the remainder cake into 2 halves shall pass through the following points :

    -> the center of the original (rectangular - uncut) cake.
    -> the center of the rectangular piece removed

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