The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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Author: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
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Chapter 10.5, Problem 3MS
Liquid gold. Suppose you and your two brothers are dividing a mound of solid gold. You could use the cake-cutting methods to get a fair division, but instead you melt it down and give each sibling an equal weight of gold. Why does this method work for gold, but not for cake?
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