Pizza station

Logic Level 1

You're hungry and want to eat pizza. You go to the pizza shop and order a pizza. Now there are two scenarios:

  1. To have your pizza cut into 8 slices.

  2. Or to have the same pizza of yours cut into 12 slices.

Now you're not very hungry, so you will select the scenario which will bring you the lesser amount of pizza. Which one will you select?

The pizza with 12 slices. As the slice will be smaller in size so I will get less Half are cut into 4 pieces and the other into 6 so 10 pieces are ok The pizza with 8 slices. I can't eat the extra 4 slices Doesn't matter, because both mean the same

Abdelrahman Samy by Abdelrahman Samy , 24, Egypt

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Abdelrahman Samy
Jun 30, 2016

It is the same pizza .. it won't get larger or smaller

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Yet , you say that "you don't want to eat much" which is somehow vague , because depending on what the statement means and what it implies also you can obtain different conclusions.

It can mean that you "don't want to eat much" (S1) but the pizza should still be eaten entirely (S2) and then , indeed , has no importance leading to the conclusion , for the solver to choose , that answer of yours anyway.

But it is also equally possible that it means that you can eat less than the whole pizza anyway ( S2' ) and then you would prefer cutting it in 12 right since , as you said , by cutting it in 12 there will be smaller pieces to eat , right ?

So it seems to be vague what to choose because it is not explicit what the statement implies and a reader wouldn't know which from S2 and S2' to admit as true , since there isn't any sources from which the reader can know that , anyway.

Maybe , you should make explicit that you have to eat the whole pizza.

I don't think that you can disclaim S2' by saying it is obvious or implicit that things anyway can't stay as S2' would imply.

A A - 4 years, 11 months ago

You are right ...Thank you :)

Abdelrahman Samy - 4 years, 11 months ago

12 12 \frac{12}{12} pizza is the same as 8 8 \frac{8}{8} pizza

they all make one whole pizza

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Assuming that when you cut the pizza and no material is lost, all of the pizza remains because the pizza is the same and you must take the whole pizza every time. Cutting the pizza will change the amount of pizza per slice, but not per the total contents of the pizza.

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