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You must cut a birthday cake into exactly eight pieces, but you're only allowed to make three
straight cuts, and you can't move pieces of the cake as you cut. How can you do it?

2
Can you place six X's on a Tic Tac Toe board without making three-in-a-row in any direction?

3
Nine dots are arranged in a three by three square. Connect each of the nine dots using only four
straight lines and without lifting your pen from the paper.

4
Arrange the numbers 1 through 9 on a tic tac toe board such that the numbers in each row,
column, and diagonal add up to 15.

5
There are several chickens and
types of animals). There are 72
How many chickens are there, and how many rabbits?

rabbits in a cage (with no other

heads and 200 feet inside the cage.

Solution
1. Use the first two cuts to cut an 'X' in the top of the cake. Now you have four pieces. Make
the third cut horizontal, which will divide the four pieces into eight. Think of a two by

two by two Rubik's cube. There's four pieces on the top tier and four more just
underneath it.
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5. Let c be the number of chickens, and r be the number of rabbits.

r + c = 72
4r + 2c = 200
To solve the equations, we multiply the first by two, then subtract the second.
2r + 2c = 144
2r = 56
r = 28
c = 44
So there are 44 chickens and 28 rabbits in the cage.