Splitting Pizza

Geometry Level 3

You have a slice of pizza. You want to split it exactly in half with your friend. Where along the pizza (look at the diagram) must you cut the pizza to have equal areas of pizza?

Information:

-The pizza is split up into 8 equal slices (see diagram for what a slice looks like)

-The pizza is 14 inches in diameter

-It's a cheese pizza

Inspiration:

A friend tried to cheat me out of pizza. I retaliated by using mathematics.


The answer is 5.216575313.

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1 solution

Seyed Seyedy
Apr 23, 2018

Thank you for writing up the solution!

Varun Gudibanda - 3 years, 1 month ago

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