My solution is cut both apples in half, and take two halves, because I am more equal than others.
Some animals are more equal than others…
Cut both apples into 10 slices each. And then, the richest person takes 18 slices. Because that’s how capitalism works, baby.
shouldn’t be that hard, but I understand that 94% can’t do it.
line up the apples, a line that will cut the first apple into 2/3 vs 1/3 will also cut the next apple in same proportion. 1 person gets the 2 sliced 1/3s
Stack the apples on top of each other, and proceed to do a single spiral cut down from the top stem, out towards the edge, and then back to the center in a single fluid motion. It won’t solve the problem, but it’ll look damn cool
Let’s assume you can stack the apples, and passing through both is still 1 stroke. That means cutting through 10 could still be considered 1 stroke.
Stack the apples.
Cut entirely through the top one directly in half.
Continue cutting through the second one.
As you cut through it, one of the people takes the top apple, rotates it 60 degrees, and puts it under the bottom apple.
Finish cutting through the now top apple and continue cutting through the now bottom apple (the original top that was already in half).
Repeat this until you’ve cut each into 6 pieces like this (picture not mathematically accurate, for visual purposes only).
Give everyone 4 each.
nice!
Actually, if you can peel them both with o e stroke, you cwn make apple sauce and serve eqaul portions quite easily.
You forgot about the cores.
Cores are non edible volume so you probably need to cut closer to 68-70%.
Damn you ruined it
Apples are not homogenous, the underlying requirement when asking for “equal share” is that no one is dissatisfied with his/her share, or envy someone else’s share. The solution is a dynamic process :
After explaining it clearly to everyone, hover the knife above the left of the first apple as if you were going to cut it through but without doing it, move the knife slowly to the right until one of the three participants says he is happy with that share, cut the apple at that point and that participant gets that share. Then do the same with the second apple and the remaining unserved participants. Whoever doesn’t have anything after that gets the remaining two slices.
Since everyone “could have” spoke earlierto get a share, everyone has a share that they consider the best in their frame of reference and everyone is satisfied.
This solution also works with more than three participants
Edit: I just now realised the goal was to do it in a single cut
Just cut them right down the middle. Four slices each person takes one and the last is left to rot. It says share equally not share the entire apple
Crush both apples with the blunt side of the knife. Divide applesauce equally.
you have the knife, ‘equally’ means you get all the apples
This guy Americas
Because the 6% are psychopaths capable of murder. I thought it was closer to 3% of the population though
Commit harakiri obviously
cut one in half. then take turns each taking an equally sized bite
If you cut one in half then the two survivors get one whole apple each.
Bite bite pass
4.5% of the population are psychopaths. 1.4% have a degree in maths.
coincidence?
This is how the hunger games started
Comments full of people earnestly trying to solve the problem without breaking the law lol
Ah damn it’s one of those single-use knives.
Cross contamination there’s a girl there you’ll get girl germs
Not if they get me germs first
Thank you for your service and sacrifice, brave little Hitachi wand.
Only if you didn’t bring extra knife ammo
It’s one of those shivs from the last of us
That’s why you get the knife subscription plan.
Yeah fuck buying things for life - I am now buying things for death
Don’t give them any more ideas.
Non-murder solution:
Place and hold the apples precisely on top of one another. (Make sure your fingers are not in the way.) From one side of the apple tower, go horizontally exactly two thirds of the way to the other side. At that position, cut vertically through both apples from top to bottom. You now have two pieces that are two thirds of an apple each, and two pieces that are one third each. The kid you like best will receive the end slices without the apple core in it.
More realistically, disregard the stupid premise and make as many cuts as you need.
The knife looks long enough you could probably cut 1/3 of each apple while they are placed side by side, which might be easier and safer to cut than stacking the apples.
That seems more possible than turning the knife 90 degrees mid-cut
Bingo
Yall just cut straight down with your knives? You dont angle the blade and slide it ?
Take both apples and attach them to a drill. Position the knife on apples so that it starts slicing a long slice as they rotate and run the drill. You’ll end up with a long piece of 2 apples and 2 cores. Keep the long peels, give each core to each one of those peasants.
Apple’s aren’t square so it’s not so easy to figure out where to cut that will give you a 1/3 - 2/3 split.
If the knife is long enough, you could simply line the apples up and do that.
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Luigi says: Just imagine one of the others is a Healthcare insurance CEO, you know what to do.
