Do you cut the cake

Do you cut the cake?

How many pieces of cake can you create if you have a cake and make 4 straight cuts?

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With a quick test of ambition.

Do you aim high or just where everyone else aims?

80% of people have 8 pieces

This is “normal”

11% of people have 11 pieces*

*Or a number close to this

This is “performing”

7% of people have 14 pieces*

*Or a number close to this

This is “innovative”

3 cuts the same as everyone else Then a slice horizontally to double the number of pieces

2% of people have more

They don’t think horizontally,They think without boundaries.

Who says all cakes are round?Who says you can’t move the

pieces after you have cut them?

So with my “E” shaped cake tin!

Cut #1

Cut #2

Cut #3

1…4…10…22

Cut number 4

makes 46 pieces

What problem are

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you trying to solve?

“E” is for Extra-ordinary.

Cakes are for eating.

©James Sandfield, 2017