Some time ago, I posted a fractions puzzle involving flat bread. You can read about it here. Here’s the question – if I take a flat piece of bread, and give you half, then you give me back a quarter, then I give you back an eighth, and you give me back 1/16, and so on ad infinitum, how much of the original flat bread do I have?
Posts Tagged ‘food’
A Toasted Bread Puzzle
15
Mar
What shall I have on my toast?
I have four different things I can spread on my toast. If I want to taste them all, I need four slices of toast.
Pratas and Sesame Street
15
Feb
As a kid, I watched Sesame Street. One segment was on sharing. Bert has a cookie, and Ernie comes and asks him “will you share your cookie with me, Bert?”
Cut A Bagel Into Two Linked Halves
17
Dec
For those of you who don’t know what a bagel is, it’s a bun with a hole in the middle. A doughnut made out of bread dough. If you can’t get hold of a bagel for the puzzle on this page, use a doughnut instead.
