Philip and Denis cut a watermelon into four parts. When they finished eating watermelon (they ate the whole thing), they discovered that there were five watermelon rinds left. How is it possible, if no rind was cut after the initial cutting?
a) You have a \(10\times20\) chocolate bar and 19 friends. Since you are good at maths they ask you to split this bar into 19 pieces (always breaking along the lines between squares). All the pieces have to be of a rectangular shape. Your friends don’t really care how much they will get, they just want to be special, so you need to split the bar in such way that no two pieces are the same.
(b) The friends are quite impressed by your problem solving skills. But one of them is not that happy with the fact you didn’t get a single piece of the chocolate bar. He thinks you might feel that you are too special, therefore he convinces the others that you should get another \(10\times20\) chocolate bar and now split it into 20 different pieces, all of rectangular shapes (and still you need to break along the lines between squares). Can you do it now?
Can Jennifer draw an octagon and a line passing through two of its vertices in such a way that this line cuts a 10-gon from it?
After having lots of practice with cutting different hexagons with a single cut Jennifer thinks she found a special one. She found a hexagon which cannot be cut into two quadrilaterals. Provide an example of such a hexagon.