TEA(M)2 Solve the Puzzle - Birthday Cake

 

RIDDLE #1

You must cut a birthday cake into exactly eight pieces, but you’re only allowed to make three straight cuts, and you can’t move pieces of the cake as you cut.  How can you do it?

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Use the first two cuts to cut an “X” in the top of the cake.  Now you have four pieces.  Make the third cut horizontal, which will divide the four pieces into eight.  Think of a two by two by two Rubik’s cube.  There are four pieces on the top tier and four more just underneath it.

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RIDDLE #2

Jennifer and John live in different sections of town but go to the same school. Jennifer left for school ten minutes before John and they met in the park.  When they met, who was closer to the school?

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They are equidistant since they meet in a common place which is one distance from the school.

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