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Notorious97 · 11-03-2014 12:48AM

This thread is what i imagine cabinet budget meetings to go like

Mrs Garth Brooks · 11-03-2014 12:48AM

Cut the cheese with a cheesecutter?

zoe 3619 · 11-03-2014 12:58AM

Mr. G wrote: »

To the power of 2, so Metres Squared. SI units for area in other words

20 metres squared? Of cheese? Maybe not reading this right...

Tokyo · 11-03-2014 01:02AM

here ya go....

kiffer · 11-03-2014 01:06AM

Um... the OP has made a slight mistake if he is trying to ask the same question as the one off the telly...

there are 3 wheels of cheese, of equal thickness.
the first has a diameter of 12 cm
the second a diameter of 16 cm
and the last one a diameter of 20 cm

Cut the three cheeses up in as few cuts as possible so that there are 4 equal portions of cheese.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 11-03-2014 01:07AM

mike_ie wrote: »

here ya go....

That's the answer I would have given. Although in the OP he gives the size of the cheese as m^2 which means they are 2D circles (magic cheese) and therefore not cylinders like you would assume.

kiffer · 11-03-2014 01:07AM

mike_ie wrote: »

here ya go....

That's 6 cuts...

Tokyo · 11-03-2014 01:08AM

kiffer wrote: »

That's 6 cuts...

Not if the cheese wheels are lined up as in the diagram. One cut across through the three, one cut down through the three....

kiffer · 11-03-2014 01:10AM

mike_ie wrote: »

Not if the cheese wheels are lined up as in the diagram. One cut across through the three, one cut down through the three....

No, it's six cuts.
Sorry them's the rules.

kiffer · 11-03-2014 01:13AM

All you have are the cheeses and a knife.
Each cut is considered separately even if you stack them or cut them all at the same time.

sligojoek · 11-03-2014 01:16AM

Take the 16^2 cheese.

We need 4m^2 which is 1/4. It's going to take two cuts alone to do that. We've no cuts left for the biggest piece.

Iwasfrozen · 11-03-2014 01:17AM

Cut 4 from the 16 and 8 from the 20, everyone gets 12. Probably been solved by now anyway.

PinkLemonade · 11-03-2014 01:19AM

kiffer wrote: »

Um... the OP has made a slight mistake if he is trying to ask the same question as the one off the telly...

there are 3 wheels of cheese, of equal thickness.
the first has a diameter of 12 cm
the second a diameter of 16 cm
and the last one a diameter of 20 cm

Cut the three cheeses up in as few cuts as possible so that there are 4 equal portions of cheese.

Does the solution have to include the angles of the cuts? Or just the resultant proportions?

sligojoek · 11-03-2014 01:21AM

Put the whole lot in a grater, weigh it and divide by 4

kiffer · 11-03-2014 01:26AM

PinkLemonade wrote: »

Does the solution have to include the angles of the cuts? Or just the resultant proportions?

The cuts are important but you don't need to show the angles... you don't have a compass.
The (correct) sizes are important.

The cuts don't have to be straight lines.

PinkLemonade · 11-03-2014 01:31AM

kiffer wrote: »

The cuts are important but you don't need to show the angles... you don't have a compass.
The (correct) sizes are important.

The cuts don't have to be straight lines.

And it's just the volume of the portions that matter, not the shape?

Turtwig · 11-03-2014 01:34AM

PinkLemonade wrote: »

And it's just the volume of the portions that matter, not the shape?

If the thickness is equal you can neglect volume entirely and focus on area. Assume they're infinitely thin slices of cheese.

bogwalrus · 11-03-2014 01:37AM

Since they are circular you can do a circular cut that will only count as one cut. So in saying this I would cut out the right square meter in order to have 4x equal sections. I think this could be done in 2 circular cuts.

PinkLemonade · 11-03-2014 01:40AM

Jernal wrote: »

If the thickness is equal you can neglect volume entirely and focus on area. Assume they're infinitely thin slices of cheese.

Grand got it much earlier but the question was so badly asked I wasnt sure

11-03-2014 01:49AM

Answer: Watch school of hard sums

Sir Arthur Daley · 11-03-2014 01:51AM

What is the answer?

JIdontknow · 12-03-2014 03:47PM

Answer is the OP has obviously eaten too much cheese and confused, Must be strong cheese Like the Specsavers add, what kind of cheese was that??

Bog Standard User · 12-03-2014 03:52PM

dotsman wrote: »

If it's 3 blocks to be cut into 4 even allotments in 2 cuts -also simple:
Cut 4 off the 16 block
Cut 8 off the 20 block and pile it with the 4.
You now have 4 piles of 12.

actually you have 5 pieces 3x 12 1x 8 and 1x 4 so wrong answer

SteelyDanJalapeno · 12-03-2014 07:25PM

Bog Standard User wrote: »

actually you have 5 pieces 3x 12 1x 8 and 1x 4 so wrong answer

parts can be combined.........

asteroth · 12-03-2014 07:47PM

Mr. G wrote: »

Ok, I saw this on TV a few days ago and thought I would ask you guys if you can figure it out. I know the answer by the way.

You have 3 circular blocks of cheese. One 12m^2, another 16m^2 and the final one 20m^2. You cannot stack them on top of each other. How can you divide them equally into 4 with none left over? It can be done in two cuts.

It's clever too!

Since when was volume measured in units of area?

whitewave · 12-03-2014 07:52PM

This thread had so much potential with 2 of my favourite things: cheese and puzzles.

Instead, I am confused, upset and hungry. Devoid of the answer actual question, and cheese.

MRnotlob606 · 12-03-2014 07:53PM

Im sorry matilda i swear that was my pineapple

asteroth · 12-03-2014 07:54PM

Mr. G wrote: »

Your pretty ****ed if you eat it I suppose.

Sorry, it was actually 20 not 24, and you have to divide it into 4.

You can only cut it twice and it's not side by side.

Just cut 8 sqm from the 20 and 4 from the 16 and put them together, then you got 4 x 12 pieces.

blatantrereg · 12-03-2014 07:55PM

Easy. Cut 4 square metres from the 16 and 8 from the 20. Then you have 4+8, 12, 12 and 12 amounts. Hopefull in >100 replies someone has already copped this but I didn't check.

asteroth · 12-03-2014 08:10PM

jimboblep wrote: »

total area is 800 m2
so divide largest block in 2 giving 2 200m2 blocks
cut 56m2 off second largest block add tht to smallest block making another 200m2
and leaving 200m2 on the middle block

How the hell does 12 + 16 + 20 = 800 ?

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