January 4, 2016 in Thinking Analytically
Crazy cake
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It’s your birthday. Four of your closest friends are with you to help you celebrate. Unfortunately, as a joke, one of your friends has cut the cake into 15 different pieces each of varying sizes. The weights of the slices are as follows (in grams): 18, 48, 19, 59, 46, 72, 67, 57, 49, 80, 50, 69, 10, 48 and 83.
Question: How can you pass out all of the slices of cake so that everyone gets an equal amount among the five of you?
Send your answer to [email protected]by March 15, 2016. The winner, chosen randomly from correct answers, will receive a $25 Amazon Gift Card. Past questions and answers can be found at puzzlor.com.
John Toczek is the AVP Predictive Modeling at Chubb in the Decision Analytics and Predictive Modeling department. He earned his BSc. in Chemical Engineering at Drexel University (1996) and his MSc. in Operations Research from Virginia Commonwealth University (2005).