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Mathematical Muffin Morsels Nobody Wants a Small Piece (Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond)
Author: William Gasarch, Erik Metz, Jacob Prinz, Daniel Smolyak
Year: 2020
Format: EPUB
File size: 16 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2020
Format: EPUB
File size: 16 MB
Language: ENG
Suppose you have five muffins that you want to divide and give to Alice, Bob, and Carol. You want each of them to get 53. You could cut each muffin into 13-13-13 and give each student five 13-sized pieces. But Alice objects! She has large hands! She wants everyone to have pieces larger than 13.Is there a way to divide five muffins for three students so that everyone gets 53, and all pieces are larger than 13? Spoiler alert: Yes! In fact, there is a division where the smallest piece is 512. Is there a better division?
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